Disclaimer: Susan Cooper owns all Dark is Rising characters, JRR Tolkien
owns all LotR characters. Plot belongs to the authors.
Prologue: Moonlight and Shadows
Will Stanton awoke suddenly from a dream. It had been 5 years since the joining of the signs but that never stopped the dreams. The Riders had been quiet for years, but his dreams were becoming more intense.
In this dream the ice blue eyes of the Darkest Rider flashed in a fury blinding him, but not before he saw other Riders with no faces. Lately he had been dreaming of a world he had never seen before and to an Old One their dreams always meant something.
It had been many weeks since Will had last heard from Merriman and he feared that something Dark lurked in the horizon. Staring out of the skylight in his room he stared up at the stars. The night was a time of darkness but the stars and the moon lit up the sky making it all the more friendly. A dark cloud suddenly blocked the full moon filling his room with darkness. An image of a horse popped into his head with a Rider in tow. This wasn't the normal rider he was accustomed to seeing.
He closed his eyes for a moment and imagined himself surrounded by light and whispered an incantation. The moon was uncovered and shined brightly again. Breathing a sigh of relief he brushed his hair off his forehead and fell back asleep to a dream of the sunrise.
A/N: Expect the first full chapter in a few days. Yes, there is a plot, for those of you who have been wondering.
Prologue: Moonlight and Shadows
Will Stanton awoke suddenly from a dream. It had been 5 years since the joining of the signs but that never stopped the dreams. The Riders had been quiet for years, but his dreams were becoming more intense.
In this dream the ice blue eyes of the Darkest Rider flashed in a fury blinding him, but not before he saw other Riders with no faces. Lately he had been dreaming of a world he had never seen before and to an Old One their dreams always meant something.
It had been many weeks since Will had last heard from Merriman and he feared that something Dark lurked in the horizon. Staring out of the skylight in his room he stared up at the stars. The night was a time of darkness but the stars and the moon lit up the sky making it all the more friendly. A dark cloud suddenly blocked the full moon filling his room with darkness. An image of a horse popped into his head with a Rider in tow. This wasn't the normal rider he was accustomed to seeing.
He closed his eyes for a moment and imagined himself surrounded by light and whispered an incantation. The moon was uncovered and shined brightly again. Breathing a sigh of relief he brushed his hair off his forehead and fell back asleep to a dream of the sunrise.
A/N: Expect the first full chapter in a few days. Yes, there is a plot, for those of you who have been wondering.