LD: Okay, I don't own.
Marik: LD! What did we tell you about starting new stories!
LD: Hey, this is a one-shot! (I think) It was my State Writing Assessment Thing. We had to do one of three things.I chose to write a fictional piece entitled 'The Calm Lake'. This is just what I came up with..hell, it's so indirect I could have put it up under original fiction! But I based it off Yu-Gi-Oh characters, so here it is.
Marik: Okay, Okay.just stop ranting..it hurts my ears.
Yugi: LD owns nothing. Don't sue her, it's really not worth it. See..
::LD empties pockets. Nothing except an empty gum wrapper and some lint::
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Final Act a.k.a. The Calm Lake
The gravel crunched faintly as the tall blonde man made his way carefully down the steep path to the lake, passive under an angry gray sky. The cool water, murky and mysterious, hid well its secrets from all, seemingly as fathomless as the midnight sky.
Tanned hands loosely clutched a bouquet of flowers. A dozen yellow roses, brilliant as sunshine and pale as moonlight appearing as the only bright spot in the otherwise grim atmosphere, stirred thunder to grumble, jealous of their brilliance.
Clouds, obscure as shadows at midnight, shifted anxiously, eager to be rid of the load they carried, as did the grief-heavy shoulders of the man with aureate flowers.
The sky rumbled irritably again, and the thin man walked with renewed vigor, ignoring the crackling cries of the tiny pebbles beneath his feet. Curiously, every few moments the man would stop, and a larger rock would be lifted into pockets already laden with the weighty ballast of many other stones.
A placid stroll along the edge of the water until the path turned, leading onto a bridge stained dark with age, which spanned the length of the lake. Thick boots turned with the path, toes at the edge, the meeting-place of two elements, earth and water, before hesitant feet pulled body onto the bridge.
The decrepit wood groaned in protest of the weight, but the figure paid it no heed and continued one, soon reaching the point furthest from either shore. Leaning against the mossy railing, the man dropped one of his roses into the water with trembling fingers.
"I..I brought you flowers.." Ripples fan out from the bright flower as it is slowly devoured by the dark water, "I know you like the yellow ones, so.." The husky voice, raspy with deep and long-carried agony, receives no answer.
The voice breaks, "Why? Why leave me? Once you were gone, I had nothing! You were my life...my...my only light.." Tears drip down the young, thing face from ancient lavender eyes, creating tiny splashes as they hit the water below.
"Ra, I wish for nothing more than to be with you again. With you, my life ended. Only my body remained."
Hands grip the flimsy railing, then feet. As the man stands, roses still in hand, a fork of lightning sears the sky, highlighting the tranquil features of a man would gladly welcome his end.
As the light disappears and thunder crashes like mighty cymbals, a step is taken, and by the time lighting once more rends the heavens with its revealing light, nothing mars the silky blackness of the calm lake but a single, slowly sinking yellow flower.
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LD: Well, that is what I turned in for CIM testing. Yuppers.
Marik: That better not have been who I thought it was....
LD: Don't worry, it was! =^.^=
Marik: I hate you.
LD Love you too. Anyway, thanks to me muse Phêdré for being all evil and suicide inclined.
Yugi: Give her a grade, she needs to know how bad she did, 'cause she won't get her scores back for quite a while!
LD: Peace Out!
Marik: LD! What did we tell you about starting new stories!
LD: Hey, this is a one-shot! (I think) It was my State Writing Assessment Thing. We had to do one of three things.I chose to write a fictional piece entitled 'The Calm Lake'. This is just what I came up with..hell, it's so indirect I could have put it up under original fiction! But I based it off Yu-Gi-Oh characters, so here it is.
Marik: Okay, Okay.just stop ranting..it hurts my ears.
Yugi: LD owns nothing. Don't sue her, it's really not worth it. See..
::LD empties pockets. Nothing except an empty gum wrapper and some lint::
****** ***************** *********************** *
Final Act a.k.a. The Calm Lake
The gravel crunched faintly as the tall blonde man made his way carefully down the steep path to the lake, passive under an angry gray sky. The cool water, murky and mysterious, hid well its secrets from all, seemingly as fathomless as the midnight sky.
Tanned hands loosely clutched a bouquet of flowers. A dozen yellow roses, brilliant as sunshine and pale as moonlight appearing as the only bright spot in the otherwise grim atmosphere, stirred thunder to grumble, jealous of their brilliance.
Clouds, obscure as shadows at midnight, shifted anxiously, eager to be rid of the load they carried, as did the grief-heavy shoulders of the man with aureate flowers.
The sky rumbled irritably again, and the thin man walked with renewed vigor, ignoring the crackling cries of the tiny pebbles beneath his feet. Curiously, every few moments the man would stop, and a larger rock would be lifted into pockets already laden with the weighty ballast of many other stones.
A placid stroll along the edge of the water until the path turned, leading onto a bridge stained dark with age, which spanned the length of the lake. Thick boots turned with the path, toes at the edge, the meeting-place of two elements, earth and water, before hesitant feet pulled body onto the bridge.
The decrepit wood groaned in protest of the weight, but the figure paid it no heed and continued one, soon reaching the point furthest from either shore. Leaning against the mossy railing, the man dropped one of his roses into the water with trembling fingers.
"I..I brought you flowers.." Ripples fan out from the bright flower as it is slowly devoured by the dark water, "I know you like the yellow ones, so.." The husky voice, raspy with deep and long-carried agony, receives no answer.
The voice breaks, "Why? Why leave me? Once you were gone, I had nothing! You were my life...my...my only light.." Tears drip down the young, thing face from ancient lavender eyes, creating tiny splashes as they hit the water below.
"Ra, I wish for nothing more than to be with you again. With you, my life ended. Only my body remained."
Hands grip the flimsy railing, then feet. As the man stands, roses still in hand, a fork of lightning sears the sky, highlighting the tranquil features of a man would gladly welcome his end.
As the light disappears and thunder crashes like mighty cymbals, a step is taken, and by the time lighting once more rends the heavens with its revealing light, nothing mars the silky blackness of the calm lake but a single, slowly sinking yellow flower.
************ ****************** ********************* ***
LD: Well, that is what I turned in for CIM testing. Yuppers.
Marik: That better not have been who I thought it was....
LD: Don't worry, it was! =^.^=
Marik: I hate you.
LD Love you too. Anyway, thanks to me muse Phêdré for being all evil and suicide inclined.
Yugi: Give her a grade, she needs to know how bad she did, 'cause she won't get her scores back for quite a while!
LD: Peace Out!