Chapter 1
~ Feathers ~
Sora's vision swam as she attempted to look for anything beyond the forest. Her silver wings snagged on every curious twig as she made her way through the endless undergrowth.
She had woken up in the middle of a road, her body feeling like it wasn't her own. She had felt something nag at the edge of her mind, but her extremely painful headache kept the thought at bay. The last she could remember, in fact, was that the spirits had sent her to Hell for doing something she would have never done. And midway...
Sora clutched her head and leaned back onto a tree. The light blue top she wore over her white blouse got stained from the wet dirt that clung to the bark, but she didn't care right now. The racking headache seemed to split the world in half, and she dropped to ground in a silent plead. Her wings rustled as a breeze whistled through the forest. Her ocean-blue eyes closed as she tried to shut out the pain.
She sat on top of the tree, feeling the cool night wind blow against her. Perched on top of a branch like a bird, she hesitantly spread her wings. They seemed fine enough, even though she had crashed onto the earth. Her headache was almost like a bad dream now, a distant memory. Breathing in slowly, she stood up on the slightly swaying branch and leapt off, into the darkness.
For a moment, her wings wouldn't fully unfurl. She tried to stop the images flowing into her mind of her bleeding to death on the forest floor; surely that wouldn't kill her, seeing as she had already fell a long way and still lived. Calming herself down, her wings snapped open and the air instantly lifted her back up into the silent night sky.
The land was sprawled beneath her, with only the dark shapes of the trees to indicate that there was anything there at all. The wind blew through her waist-length sky blue hair; how could humans live, without this feeling? Without this exhilaration of flying, of being so close to the sky? A glimpse of the stars twinkling against the midnight azure sky caused her to stare at them. Had she been ignoring these in the small amount of time she had been here? They were beautiful, holding all sorts of hopes, wishes, and possibilities. Back at the top of the sky, she had not been able to see these. Back in Heaven, there was no sign of the passage of time in the day. It was all light and blazing sun, no comforting darkness. But that was the point. Darkness could taint the purity of the heavens.
Suddenly, she lurched from her position in the air and was pulled down, towards the ground. Sora strained to stretch her wings of silver, but they seemed lifeless, unable to respond to her commands. She reached out her hand to grab at something, anything, to stop her fall. Leaves that she couldn't see grazed her palm, whipping uselessly past her. Not the ground again. I don't want to hit the ground again. Two branches bent as her weight hit them both. She felt the smooth bark on one of them as she almost got ahold of it. Then she was spiraling down again, this time with her feathers swirling around her.
This never happened back home! Startled that she actually had time to think about that rather than find a way to regain balance, she burst through a canopy of greens and smashed into the ground. 'Is the ground this hard?!' A groan escaped from her.
"What-the-" A gasp from below her caused her instincts to kick in. She instantly leapt onto her feet and rolled a few meters away before whirling around.
"Who's there?" Sora opened one of her clenched fists and felt the coldness of snowflakes flutter around her hand. Something dropped into it. Keeping the familiar weight on her left side, she placed the ivory bow in front of her and pulled back the bowstring with her right hand. A slight breeze picked up around her as she gathered the air into one solid arrow.
In the dim light of the forest, she saw something, or someone, stand up from where she had landed. Sorry, she immediately said in her mind. Tightening her grip on her bow, she squinted past her arrow of wind and glimpsed the shadow of a weapon being drawn out.
"Who's there?" she repeated.
"What are you saying," he, or she, grumbled. "You landed on me."
"I'm sorry," she replied, then realized she had just apologized to an unknown enemy or ally.
Just after the words left her mouth, the weapon flashed past her head. She flinched and looked up to stare into a pair of piercing eyes.
Hey guys :D Tis' Yume again~ You know who that person at the end is? I don't. I mean, I REALLY don't. That's why there's barely any detail about that person. Why? Maybe because dis' is another one of those...OC fics. :3 Everytime I played a game or read a series of books, I would get an urge to create an "R.P." with my friends. I made a Warriors' one, with my cat named Nightshade. Then I had one about Fairy Tail, with my character named Eira. XD I even made one for Shugo Chara, but I forgot her name...gotta go look through my notebooks for that again. Anyways, I had wanted to do one for Elsword, but then I felt like I shouldn't. .-. It's here now, but whatever. :'D Whoever's reading this and feels offended, I. AM. SORRY. GOMENEN. Sora's my OC; did NOT copy off of anyone else. I feel like I'm copying all those people making OC fanfictions out there. . I'm sorry! I'll need more volunteers for OC's-I'm sorry if you think I'm copying you, authors DX -so just PM them to me or post a review for it. I'll need your base class description, your OC's personality, base skills, and your weapons. Plus your background information. Then I need your job paths. You can make as many job paths as you want, but I need you to choose ONE for your OC. After selecting your job path, name it, give it at least two skills, a description of after job change, background information of what caused the change, etc. Repeat that for your last advancement. If your OC's personality changes with the jobs, please do tell me. :) If you have any requests, do not be afraid to tell me~ Again, I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone. I'm really trying not to. Also, in case you might not have noticed, WingsOfSorrow is a guild. On Elsword. :3 I don't know why I named this story like that, but I think it fits! :D And I know I'm saying sorry too much. XD Not gonna apologize for that.
Edit - Accepting indefinite amount of OCs. PM me or review it. Be sure to check and see if you have SOLID BACKGROUND INFO. It helps tons in writing, and makes it a less pain in trying to have it make sense. Background info - what happened to character in the span of a certain amount of time. Such as, for base, explain what happened to character before. For job change, explain what the character DID to become that current job advancement. Etc. Now, I must take my leave :3 For those who wish to participate, have fun in creating your OC! Take your time to perfect it. Afterall, you have a LOT of time to create it, since there's no definite amount of OCs I'm letting in~ Thanks for reading! ^^
