ok, first story. i no i messed up...o well. enjoy! tell me what u think. i need some critics!(ok, i no my spelling is bad, so dont put that up)
chapter 1
Sophie's heart raced with fear. Her breath was heavy. Her heels stung from the raw skin pounding on the cement road. She was alone. Howl was still at home; she had sent Mark home when it began to get dark. No wonder Sophie couldn't fall asleep. She was being watched.
The goopy creatures followed close behind her, seeping through the solid walls. They couldn't be the witches henchmen. She was stripped of them, wasn't she? And these were gray, not the tar black of hers.
She took a left.
Who did these creatures work for, and what did they want from poor little Sophie? Howl, she imagined. It was always Howl.
Another left.
Her eyes widened. There, at the end of the road was a large, brick wall, awaiting to greet her with the gruesome end of her life.
"oh crap." she muttered under her breath. She stopped. The wall of black closed in on her, engulfing her body in its slime.
She lost breath. It was silent. At first she struggled to get out for air, but her body began to shut down. She stopped moving. Then her mind began to fade, till she was unconscious, atleast from the outside. But inside, she still struggled. Sophie was panicking. She had to get out. She had to survive.
A intense pain woke her. Her body jolted, her back arching and mouth screaming, though no sound would escape. Something was trying to dig its way inside her.
The mind is a complicated thing. There's room for one, and one alone. That person spends its years searching through the maze, looking for new gifts to unleash. When another enters, that maze disappears. It hands you the thing it treasures the most, so you can save it from exposure.
Sophie held this defense. Wile the creatures were trying to peer into her true potential, Sophie was seeing something of her she had never seen before.
A small light started at her chest. Her musles relaxed. The light grew, till she was surrounded by a large bubble that gleemed with a lavender fire-like shell. Her body glowed with it. The blue dress Sophie wore burned to ash, and disappeared through the transparent barrier. Her eyes opened with a blank stare, though inside her lids were not those she knew. They were blue. All blue, like flame in two glass orbs.
The sphere blasted through the gray goop, exploding it into thousands of tiny droplets around the area. They were gone.
Sophie's vision blurred. The pain rushed back to her, and she fell to her knees, then to the cold, hard, ground. The last sight her eyes met was the faint shape of the tall, thin Howl rushing toward her. She smiled weakly. She was safe.
