Yep- another one! Told ya! See, part of the problem is that I write all these down on an app called My Writing Spot on my Nook Color. Previously, I would have to retype the whole thing in Microsoft Word to get it on here. And that was a pain! But now, I've figured out that I can e-mail my documents in My Writing Spot to myself, so now I can get them on here easier! Yay! As always, please review, hug a polar bear, and I don't own Rise of the Guardians no matter how much I wish I did!
"Ow..." Kate got up slowly, one hand on her head as the other held her partially off the ground. Her head was pounding, and her ears were ringing... Suddenly, her head shot up, though she grit her teeth as she tried to ignore the pain in her skull.
"Oh no!" The explosion! Kate looked around, hastily, yet carefully, standing up, her heart breaking as she saw what remained of their castle. The once-magnificent stone structure was now in ruins. The walls had been completely obliterated, barely any stone left standing. Broken pieces of stone were everywhere, many lying in crumbling heaps around the main room. The beautiful murals that had been on the walls were shattered to pieces. Kate sniffled as she picked up a piece of stone with an intricate flower on it- a shard of her favorite mural. She gently set it down on a nearby stack of rocks, swallowing hard as she walked a few steps forward. She could barely tell where anything was anymore, the only indication that she was still in the vicinity of the main room being the broken mural and the large rocks outside of the destroyed walls of the castle, as the castle had been built so that most of it was in a "pocket" in a large mountain. Kate's vision was still dark in some places, but she knew complete destruction when she saw it. And this was it.
Suddenly, one thought pushed itself to the front of Kate's mind, her eyes snapping open.
"Kanjir! Demetri! Leo!" She cried out desperately, swinging her head from side to side. She began to run around, looking for the other spirits through all the rubble. She wasn't very strong, but that was the last thing on her mind as she struggled to toss bits of stone aside, searching frantically.
"Zoey! Alex!" She called, her voice breaking in despair. Tears brimmed behind her eyelids as Katelyn squeezed her eyes shut, wishing desperately that this was some kind of horrible nightmare. But deep down, she knew it was true. Her home... it was destroyed. Gone. The castle had been standing for thousands of years until the Spirits had found it, and had been there for hundreds of years since. But now, just like that, it was over. There was no way to rebuild its walls. And the spirits... Her family... Kate put a hand over her mouth as sobs finally began to rack her small frame, tears overflowing from her broken blue eyes. She collapsed to her hands and knees, letting out all of her sadness as she tightly gripped the remains of the torn rug underneath of her fingers. Her crying echoed sadly through the empty, broken castle, the feeling of hopelessness too much for her to bear.
Eventually, Katelyn stopped, pulling herself up to lean against a large slab of stone. She hugged her arms around herself, feeling small in the towering debris. Her breathing came a little heavier as her sobbing quieted, but tears continued to flow down her face. She slowly looked around at the haunting, empty, destroyed castle, her throat constricting as she tried to collect herself.
But it was too much. The wave of tears began anew, her sobbing and sniffling loud and now unbarred, as she finally let it all out. Her face was turning light red as her tiny frame racked with sobs, her arms wrapped tightly around herself as she tried not to think about the silence around her. No matter how she looked at it, though, it was inevitable. She was completely and totally alone.
Unable to bear the silence, Katelyn began to scream out, barely finding the time to breathe between the outbursts and her sobs.
"Kanjir! You promised you'd always be there if I needed you! You and Alex both! You lied! You lied!" The tears were coming faster, and she began to gasp for breath before each ranting scream.
"Come back! I need you! Demetri, come out! This isn't funny! Leo, Zoey, please!" She screamed out, desperate for someone to come out, for Demetri to walk out from between those two rocks and flounder apologies for making her cry, like he always did when he tried to prank people with Alex. She wanted to see Alex float down from between the broken rafters, with that same teasing smile she always wore, and give Katelyn a warm hug to make her feel better. From the bottom of her heart, she wished for Kanjir to come out from hiding beneath the ground, walk up to her with a gentle, loving smile, and to make her feel better. She would have given anything to see Zoey and Leo get up from the debris, and start yelling at each other like they always did, blaming each other for what happened while Alex would laugh.
Oh, how Katelyn desperately wished for that to happen. She wanted it more than anything she had ever wanted in all her years, in all her hopes and dreams this one outranked them all.
But fate was cruel. It did not choose to pity Katelyn. It turned a blind eye. That was how Katelyn's heart, broken and tattered, saw it, anyway. It had taken her friends away. It had taken her family, and left her all alone.
The screaming slowly faded. The tears dried up, no more tears left to be shed. The sobs finally quieted to hiccups, the sniffling became less frequent. Her eyelids drooped halfway, as she slowly began to numb. She was despairing, she was alone, but somehow, she had a tiny shred of hope. A small, shaky light of belief, of the pure, heartfelt wishfulness of a child. A tiny, seemingly insignificant presence deep in her heart so small, so deeply hidden Katelyn didn't see it.
But somewhere, somehow... someone else did. The small ray of hope touched a heart, in such a way that something wonderful happened. Something magic and beautiful.
Katelyn was beginning to fall asleep, no matter how much she didn't want to. Her senses dulled, her mind began to lose focus on reality. Her muscles relaxed, her hiccups eventually silenced, and her head leaned forward.
A soft white light broke through her steadily-fading vision. A figure stepped from the light, slowly approaching Katelyn. Something about it was... comforting. Its touch was like soft clouds, and it calmed Katelyn, as if reassuring that she was safe. A soft smile was on the figure's face, and their voice- that of a young girl, possibly even younger than Katelyn herself- was like a ray of white light, gentle and soothing.
"Shh... It's okay. I'm here... I'm here..." Those words continued to echo through Katelyn's subconscious even long after she fell asleep.
Like I said before, I'm not that good (geez- my friend was right. I have got to work on my low self-esteem..), so please don't hate me! Please review, and then Kozo the polar bear will be happy! Bye for now, my friends!