Fate's Cruelty,
By
Bentley Gallo.
Chapter 4: Bricriu.
"Annie!?" Fiona yelled at her. "What are you doing in my stuff?!!?"
"Well I." Annie began standing to her feet feeling the floppy disk containing Bricriu poke her side. She prayed to god that Fi hadn't seen her take it. "Molly told me that to help out that I should bring your stuff upstairs."
"That doesn't give you a right to go through everything of mine!" Fi yelled back at her. "What your mad at me for giving up the paranormal so now your trying to ruin my life? Is that it?"
"No!" Annie yelled. "Fi! What is the matter with you? What happened to you in Seattle?"
"I already told you!" She said back. "I can't tell you!"
"Does it have to do with the paranormal?" Annie asked kind of concerned for her old and maybe ex best friend.
Then Annie noticed something she hadn't seen on her friend's arm earlier. There was a large black tattoo half hidden by her shirt on her arm. The tattoo looked like a black gothic cross on her arm.
"Fi…" Annie began approaching Fi. "When did you get a tattoo?"
"Oh!" Fiona gasped. "Forget it. You never saw it…"
"Fi?"
"I…" Fi began obviously upset by something. "I have to take a walk."
Fiona ran to the front door and made her escape.
"There's something about that cross…" Annie said, the panther appearing behind her. "And I'm going to find out what."
Annie started back on her job and began collecting Fi's things from the floor, the disk still digging into her side.
Fi walked down the street holding her arms around her waist trying to keep warm.
"Geez!" She said to herself. "I didn't realize how cold it was out here!"
The 'tattoo' (as Fi likes to think of it,) stung her arm painfully.
It was dark outside now but the ominous clouds overhead gave off an eerie purple glow.
She remembered the same clouds in Seattle.
The same ones that had followed her all the way back home. This home.
A drop of water fell from the sky and hit her face. Then another fell and it hit her arm. That only made her arm hurt worse.
"Ow!" She gasped feeling the mark on her arm grow larger.
~*~
"Ha ha…" The shadow laughed again inside the cloud. But one thing was different.
The shadow had an arm, if you could call it that. It was more of a claw. It had silver scales and five ling clawed fingers.
But one thing on its arm stood out.
There was a large black gothic cross covering most of the topside of the arm.
~*~
It was about fifteen minutes later when Annie sat at her computer in her and Fi's room.
She inserted the disk containing Bricriu into the drive.
"Time to find out what you really hold." Annie said to the icon of the disk on the menu screen.
She moved the mouse to the icon and double clicked.
At first all that appeared was a black screen with a static sort of noise.
But then a very small faint shimmer lighted up the middle of the screen.
"Here we go…" Annie said to the panther that was laying on the floor next to her. "I guess it's time to meet Bricriu."
Annie sat open eyed and in awe as the small shimmer grew to a glow.
By
Bentley Gallo.
Chapter 4: Bricriu.
"Annie!?" Fiona yelled at her. "What are you doing in my stuff?!!?"
"Well I." Annie began standing to her feet feeling the floppy disk containing Bricriu poke her side. She prayed to god that Fi hadn't seen her take it. "Molly told me that to help out that I should bring your stuff upstairs."
"That doesn't give you a right to go through everything of mine!" Fi yelled back at her. "What your mad at me for giving up the paranormal so now your trying to ruin my life? Is that it?"
"No!" Annie yelled. "Fi! What is the matter with you? What happened to you in Seattle?"
"I already told you!" She said back. "I can't tell you!"
"Does it have to do with the paranormal?" Annie asked kind of concerned for her old and maybe ex best friend.
Then Annie noticed something she hadn't seen on her friend's arm earlier. There was a large black tattoo half hidden by her shirt on her arm. The tattoo looked like a black gothic cross on her arm.
"Fi…" Annie began approaching Fi. "When did you get a tattoo?"
"Oh!" Fiona gasped. "Forget it. You never saw it…"
"Fi?"
"I…" Fi began obviously upset by something. "I have to take a walk."
Fiona ran to the front door and made her escape.
"There's something about that cross…" Annie said, the panther appearing behind her. "And I'm going to find out what."
Annie started back on her job and began collecting Fi's things from the floor, the disk still digging into her side.
Fi walked down the street holding her arms around her waist trying to keep warm.
"Geez!" She said to herself. "I didn't realize how cold it was out here!"
The 'tattoo' (as Fi likes to think of it,) stung her arm painfully.
It was dark outside now but the ominous clouds overhead gave off an eerie purple glow.
She remembered the same clouds in Seattle.
The same ones that had followed her all the way back home. This home.
A drop of water fell from the sky and hit her face. Then another fell and it hit her arm. That only made her arm hurt worse.
"Ow!" She gasped feeling the mark on her arm grow larger.
~*~
"Ha ha…" The shadow laughed again inside the cloud. But one thing was different.
The shadow had an arm, if you could call it that. It was more of a claw. It had silver scales and five ling clawed fingers.
But one thing on its arm stood out.
There was a large black gothic cross covering most of the topside of the arm.
~*~
It was about fifteen minutes later when Annie sat at her computer in her and Fi's room.
She inserted the disk containing Bricriu into the drive.
"Time to find out what you really hold." Annie said to the icon of the disk on the menu screen.
She moved the mouse to the icon and double clicked.
At first all that appeared was a black screen with a static sort of noise.
But then a very small faint shimmer lighted up the middle of the screen.
"Here we go…" Annie said to the panther that was laying on the floor next to her. "I guess it's time to meet Bricriu."
Annie sat open eyed and in awe as the small shimmer grew to a glow.