YO yo!! Waz up? And all that!! Alex is here with another fic. This is only a 2 chappie one and unfortunately the first chappie is kinda short! But... if you review you'll get more faster! hint hint Okay, in order to read this you have to read Living nightmare followed by Choking on the pain. You also have to review for them! again hint hint This is what happens to Alanna in result to what happened at the end of Choking on the pain and in order to understand that one you have to read Living Nightmare. sorry but, hint hint Before I allow you to read this though, I want to answer reviews for the end of Choking on the Pain, so here goes:
Lady Knight 1512: I'm glad you really like them!!! And of course you are not writing in vain. Do you really think we would read, let alone review ur stories if they weren't good? Keep writing!
Alanna's Modern Day Twin: That makes me feel loved that you would go all the way to the mall just to read stuff I've written. Of course, this could just be for your pleasure and not for my self esteem! Lol!!
Master of the fluff aka Eunae: thanx!! That was a short review!! It's a new record!! Nothin betta than some fluffy ness!! DainenNumairflufferspectacularlyness!!! Is that a word? We should submit that to a dictionary!!! I keep thinking about those masks! Maybe I won't to Aly. I'd ruin her face. Of course I would have ruined Daine's face atrociously more but noooooo! Eunae has to do it first!!(not saying you'd ruin her face.) And now smitha has taken my cat!! (not the real one but the idea!) sniff sniff lol!!!! Bye bye!!
WildEarth-Child: Sorry to be blunt but you completely missed the point!! I sat down with the intent of making Numair having a nightmare. I did not mean to take the "easy way out" I'm sorry if you are disappointed by that. I do like ur idea of an alternate ending though. I would have to change some things in the fic though. I'm also glad you thought my plot was original. I luv to hear thoughts like that. That's y me friends avoid giving them to me cause I might get to arrogant! Lol!
Narm's Briton 44: Glad you liked it. I put in the whole analizing thing cause it's interesting and I didn't want others to get mad at me for something. I love thinking like that even though I have nearly driven my self crazy in the process. As my mom would say 'Short trip!' Oh well. I have been getting in trouble lately for over analizing things. Just a few days ago my mom said something like if ur a hammer all your problems are nails and I have to go into things like "but what if your problems are screws" and what not. Oh well, thanx for the review.
Heather-marie: Don't feel bad!! I would be yelling at me too. In fact, I would be beating my self up for what I did to dear Numy. Also thanx! Glad u liked it!
Megster: Well to tell you the truth, all reviewers are good ones!! Unless of course their flames! (ugh!) and none of u really flamed me you all just care about Numair! Also, do you think tree sap would have an effect on making a computer work? How was ur camping trip by the way?
Tortall's resident wildchild: U are smart!! Brownies and what not for you!! Unfortunatly, you will have to make them your self. Lol!! You are smart! Sorry about the whole project thing. I hate situations like that with a passion! And believe it or not I had fun at that fair! Of course it could have been better if the person I was with wasn't being such an... well, let's not get into that. Enjoy this next fic.
Warrior of Tortall: Muahahahaha!! Yes Evil!! Well it's all okay now! Or is it? dun dun duh shifty eyes
Goddess of Muffins: How could I ever leave Daine and Numair a part?! I may be evil, but I'm not that evil!! Anyways!! With the whole yelling thing, I wasn't really upset. In fact I was reading all these reviews one morning where every one was mad at me and I start laughing. My mom's like, "What's so funny?" I give a big evil grin and say, "Oh everyone hates me!" you see, that was the reaction I was going for! Muahahahaha. sinister music starts
Roherwen: Sometimes obvious things are the most not obvious. Not that it was necessarily obvious but maybe it was. I wouldn't really know seeing how I knew what was gonna happen form the beginning! Lol!!
Equestrian-babe101: Yes I tricked you!! I tricked all of you!!! Sorry, evil alter ego took over for a moment!
Alrighty!! Now, on with the show!! Again, sorry it's so short!!!
Alanna the Lioness rode swiftly through the woods. She was on another mission for Tortall. King Jonathan had wanted her to investigate some strange occurrences that were happening. The forest was silent or was it? What was that? Alanna strained her ears.
"It was probably nothing," she thought and started to move again. She heard it again. Was it her imagination? Or was something moving through the trees with her? Keeping pace and stopping when she did.
'I really need to stop letting my imagination get the better of me!" With each step she took she felt colder and colder.
"What is going on?" she thought as she shivered. Soon snow began to fall. Flakes drifted down to nest in her hair and her eyelashes.
"Snow?!" she said, "Why is it snowing? I hate the cold! I haven't warm enough clothes!" She fought her way through the snow and wind searching for shelter. At last the lioness found a cave where she crouched down, arms embracing herself, trying to keep warm.
'If I don't warm up I'll die!" she told herself, "I have to move around!" The knight got up and began to pace around the cave slapping her arms and cheeks to keep the feeling in them. As she paced Alanna gaze out into the snow, watching it pile into drifts and swirl around the sky. And as the snow swirled, images swirled with it., blurring with one another. Alanna strained her eyes, trying to make out the shapes. Finally, one by one, they became clear. At first all they were was stormwings and spidrens. Alanna clutched at her sword. The immortals seemed real and not real at the same time. She saw them and yet they didn't seem to be really there. Next images of people became clear. Mostly they were men. Their faces were very detailed and yet they seemed hazy at the same time. Some seemed familiar and others did not. Suddenly Alanna realized what was going on. All of these immortals and mortals were beings she had fought and killed. New images appeared. These she recognized at once. Members of the Bahzir tribe she was a part of, Liam Ironarm the Shang Dragon, her own brother Thom. These she had not killed but had always felt it was her fault that they had died. The creatures flitted about form place to place and among them was a couple. They were perfectly velar. Daine and Numair waltzed among the others staring at each other only. Oblivious to the cold, Alanna, and the creatures fluttering around them, never once bumping them. Suddenly another image became clear. He was cleared and sharper than the rest but not a sharp as Daine and Numair. It was Duke Roger of Conté. Alanna recoiled in spite of her self. Did it just get colder?
"Hello Alan," he said, "Or I suppose it's Alanna now," he advanced toward her, 'We need to discuss some things. For instance: why did you kill me? Two times in fact. I was just ambitious. You ambitious your self and your not dead," he got closer and closer. She tried to draw her sword but she couldn't. It was stuck, "Roger's magic? But he's dead! Of is he? He had comeback after the first time I killed him.' Alanna backed away. Daine and Numair still waltzed among the dead, oblivious. Eyes only for each other.
"Daine? Numair? Help! Stop him! "she yelled starting to panic. Roger got closer and closer grinning. Alanna hated that smile. The figure of her twin brother Thom stopped for a moment.
"Our smiling friend," he said before flicking back to the others. Roger advanced until he was close enough to touch her if he reached out a hand.
"Daine! Numair! Help me!" she yelled again.
"Are your children okay?" the duke asked. Alanna forgot her fear for herself.
"What did you do to them?!" she screamed and she leapt for her enemy's throat. Roger grasped her throat in one hand and lifted her off the ground.
"Daine! Numair help me! Please stop him! Sto-"she screamed in panic before his hand clenched and her pleas were cut of with her air. As her vision clouded she could this see Roger's smile, the dance of the dead and Daine and Numair still waltzing through it all, oblivious to everything but themselves.
Whoa! Spooky huh? What will happen next? I tell you right now, she doesn't die. You'll see what happens if I get reviews, hint hint see that button? Push it and review! hint hint oh sorry can't resist! One more time! hint hint hint hint hint hint!!!!! lol!! Well cyal8or!!
alex