Shadow's Writing:

Away.

Far away.

Far from them, far from everyone! Just leave me be!

Gweniver shook her head, attempting to clear her thoughts. The young woman leaned back against a large oak tree, staring up into the bright blue sky, her dark blue eyes, distant, already lost in thought once more as the wind gently blew against her short brown hair, along with the slightly lighter tuft of hair in the front above her left eye. The young mage sighed to herself before dusting some grass off of her dark brown pants, adjusting her brown shirt and long black cloak as she stood once more, frowning under her black face mask while she glanced around her current location.

"Well then." Gweniver mumbled to herself, "Where exactly should I head to now?"

Gweniver took only a few steps forward before stopping once more, a sound behind her catching her immediate attention. The mage glanced over her shoulder, attempting not to alert whatever was behind her, though such a tactic quickly proved useless as Gweniver was forced to swiftly turn and bring her Dark Matter pickaxe forward, smacking it against the Creeper advancing towards her to knock it away just as it was about to blow up. The force of the explosion threw Gweniver back, smacking her against another oak tree, though she quickly recovered, standing before the crater left by the Creeper.

"Hah! You'll have to try harder than that, Creeper!" Gweniver cheered mockingly at the hole in the ground.

The newly proud of herself mage happily turned from the hole and continued walking towards the clearing ahead of her, spotting a river in the distance, merrily twirling her pickaxe while she walked. As she approached the water's edge, a sudden large splash from the center of the river sent the mage jumping back, frantically looking around, positive she had saw something fall into the water, but what and from where she couldn't be sure.

Gweniver continued watching the water closely, slowly considering the possibility that maybe she had imagined this. However, all doubt was washed aside as a red haired man burst through the still water and began swimming towards the edge, exhaustively panting as he reached the shore, laying face first against the river bank while attempting to catch his breath.

"...Hello?" Gweniver asked, staring down at the stranger, finally confirming that though the colors were close, his hair was actually quite short and just happened to match the short red cloak fastened around his shoulders.

The man, still laying on the ground, turned his head to look up at Gweniver, his bright blue eyes full of confusion, almost as confusing as the smudged purple paint on his cheek Gweniver noticed. She found herself staring back at this stranger for longer than intended while waiting for him to answer, or to say anything at this point.

Finally a large smile crossed the confused man's face as he cheered up at Gweniver, "Hey, Good lookin! What's cookin?"

"Excuse me?!" Gweniver snapped, calming as the stranger instantly began apologizing.

"Sorry! Didn't mean that... or I did... sort of. I'm not really sure actually." The man paused for a moment before pushing himself up to a sitting position, pouting a bit as he seemed to fall into deep thought.

Gweniver found herself staring at this stranger even more, almost as confused as he was, though she managed to ask, "Who exactly are you?"

The man looked back up at her, a blank stare on his face for only a moment before that same big smile reappeared as he replied, "You know, I'm not really sure about that either. I think... Zach? Yeah, Zach sounds right, I think... maybe. Zachs a good name, right?"

"I suppose." Gweniver responded before asking, "I don't suppose you have any idea where you came from then? It appeared as though you fell out of the sky, but there is nothing above the river for you to have fallen off of..." Gweniver released an exasperated sigh as she found Zach staring back at her, clearly still confused. Rolling her eyes a bit, Gweniver forced a smile, though unseen behind her mask, and offered her hand to Zach to help him up, which he happily accepted.

"Thanks a lot, Miss...uh..." Zach paused, unsure if her name was something else he could not remember or if he had simply never met her before.

"Gweniver." She answered, receiving that big smile from him once more.

"Thanks a lot, Gwen!" Zach cheered, shaking her hand vigorously.

"Gweniver." She corrected him, slightly annoyed. "So you really have no idea who you are? Nothing other than your name?"

Zach shrugged his shoulders before rubbing the back of his head. "It's a bit of a blur to be honest. Guess I hit my head on something, or... I dunno. I don't really have much of anything actually." Zach admitted as he glanced over himself. Aside from his red cloak, grey shit, black pants and brown boots, he was right, he really had nothing else, not even his memories. Zach fell silent as that realization finally sank in, a sad smile crossing his previously overly happy face.

Gweniver felt a knot form in her chest as she couldn't help but pity the poor man. Though the feeling passed quicker than she thought it would as he suddenly grabbed her hand and begged, "Can I please stay with you?"

"W-what?!" Gweniver yelped, pulling her hand away. "No, no you cannot! We don't even know each other and more importantly, I don't have anywhere for us to stay!" She paused as Zach stared back at her, once more looking quite confused. Gweniver sighed and continued with, "I'm in the process of finding somewhere new to live, Zach. I do not have a home for you to stay in at the moment."

"Perfect!" Zach suddenly cheered, catching Gweniver a bit off guard, "That's perfect, Gwen. We're in the same boat. We're both homeless, so lets be homeless together!"

Gweniver stared blankly back at him, more confused than ever. Finally she shook her head while stating, "You... you are very strange, Zach. Very, very strange."

Author's Notes!

Hey guys! Luka here dropping a new fic!"The Darkhold Chronicles" is a collab fanfic series between myself and ShadowDragonia ( ) over on DeviantART

The Darkhold Chronicles is a genderswap fanfic based around The Blackrock Chronicles

Basically, Shadow will write one chapter and then I will write the other! I will be posting both sides on here since she doesn't have a FF. So, so follow her on DA if you have one! She also made the cover art so you should really show her some love :3