Author : Wild-Melody
Disclaimer : I am in no way associated with So Weird, though I wish I were!
A/N : The accident will happen in this chapter, pay close attention, and the identity of the mystery caller will be revealed. The first of the mythological animals will make its appearance in this chapter, as will another one, but you'll have to carefully read in between the lines to discover which creature the second one is.
Summary : After a terrible car accident, the lives of the Phillips family and their friends are drastically changed. Can the intervention of mythological creatures return their lives to a semblance of what it once was?
SO WEIRD
ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS
Chapter 1 : Turn into Tragedy
There once was a land where mermaids sing, and man-eating dragons breathe fire.
Where Unicorns used to run on the wind, and a magician didn't need a squire.
Where centaurs ruled almost supreme, and Pan's kin would tend the flock.
Where Pegasus would dance on the clouds, and the most powerful bird was a roc.
A magical land where good was the silent hand that held the destinies of all.
But one-day evil powers took over, if you are to save the land you can't stall.
To save the land you must keep the land in your imagination heart and soul, to call upon
that strength to save its extinction and to keep it as a whole.
Twilight was just beginning to fall, and the first star of the night made its appearance, twinkling brilliantly in the darkening sky. There was not a single cloud to mar the breathtaking visage of the sky that night, but danger lay in waiting.
The deep blue car, looking almost purple in the fading light, continued onward in its endless coarse, the roadway winding in the distance before it. To the right ran guard rails, a few feet beyond the land dropped off in an endless void of nothing, meeting the crashing waves of the ocean. And the ocean was a siren, calling to the souls of the lost and the forgotten, but the driver heard none of this, or if she did, she paid it no mind.
She glanced over at the cell phone sitting on the blue fabric of the passenger seat and reached for it. Picking the small device up, she glanced quickly at the charging icon, "Almost done," she said softly to herself. Returning her eyes to the road, she glanced up at the quickly darkening sky. "I guess I was wrong on the time," she said to no one in particular. "That detour didn't help much." She had gotten off at the wrong exit and it had been 50 miles before she had realized her mistake.
"Talk about a blond moment," she laughed at herself, "Fi will never let me live that one down."
How, you may ask, can one make such a huge mistake and not notice it? How can you take the wrong exit and not realize it until 50 miles later? It's easy when other forces are at work, someone wanted her on the coastline roadway, wanted her where she wasn't suppose to be. She wouldn't know this till it was to late…and she was out of the way when her friends would need her help the most.
She touched a button on the radio, changing radio stations, the previous one was becoming staticky. A song she had never heard before came over the speakers and she felt a sudden sense of foreboding while at the same time a sense of absolute peace. Strange to feel such opposite emotions at the same time.
When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain,
and the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain,
in the shadow of the forest, though she may be old and worn,
they will stare, unbelieving, at the Last Unicorn.
When the first breathe of winter, though the flowers is icing,
and you look to the north, and the pale moon is rising,
and it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn.
In the distance, hear the laughter, of the Last Unicorn,
I'm alive...I'm alive...
When the last moon is cast, over the last star of morning,
and the future has past without even a last desperate warning,
then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is formed.
Look and see her, how she sparkles, it's the Last Unicorn.
I'm alive...I'm alive...
She shook her head to clear it and noticed that clouds now marred the once clear sky. "Where did they come from?" She asked herself softly. Goosebumps suddenly appeared on her bare skin, but it was not from the cool wind blowing past her, for the air was warm. A chill ran up her back and something told her that something just wasn't right.
She was just about to pull over to the side of the road when she noticed headlights in her rearview mirror that hadn't been there a moment before. Now would not be a good time to pull over, she told herself.
High above, overhead, she heard the shrill call of a seagull, but it sounded like it was right in the car with her. She looked up and noticed that the moon way trying to peek out between the dark gray clouds of the night and the seagull's wings turned molten silver in the rays that did pass between the clouds.
She continued on a little further, the car behind her neither gaining nor loosing the distance between them. It seemed weird to her, especially with the way it had come out of nowhere. Weird? That's not weird, her mind said to her. Weird is all the things you've seen when you were on tour with Molly, Jack, Clu and the rest. That was weird, this is just something normal.
Hmmm, maybe you're right, she answered herself. I'm just worrying over nothing. Besides, if it was something deadly or dangerous, the panther would be here. With that said, she put herself at ease. If there was anything to worry about, she'd get a warning from her spirit animal, and as of yet, he had made no appearance.
She turned the radio up a notch more and continued on her way, putting her worries aside. There was nothing to worry about anyways.
"I'll travel to the next town, find a hotel and call Fi from there and let her know I won't make it till sometime in the morning or early afternoon. That way she won't worry." She said to herself.
There was a sudden shifting in the shadows of the forest that lined the other side of the road and she watched as a white horse walked slowly out onto the road right in front of her. It was that moment that the moon broke free of the clouds and its pale white light poured down on the earth below. Golden hair turned into molten gold in the moonlight and light bounced from the horn like a prism, the light refracting into a billion bright colors.
The Unicorn turned and stared straight at her, its pale blue eyes connecting with hers and in that moment she saw her destiny…and her death.
Screaming, she violently jerked the car to the right and felt the impact as it crashed through the metal barrier of the guardrails. Then she was free falling, looking straight down into the molten silver surface of the ocean.
Moonlight flashed off of a pair of wings circling high above, they glistened silver in the light, appearing to dance on the clouds, then disappeared.
The seagull cried once more then headed out over the ocean, not caring about the tragedy he had witnessed that night.
This is how I'm to die? She thought to herself just before the car crashed into the surging waves of the unrelenting ocean. Annie Thelen's car sunk to the bottom of the ocean floor, and just above it, the ocean returned to its calm demeanor as if nothing had happened at all.
Well, what do you think? No, I'm not an Annie hater, I want to clear that up before anyone starts either praising or flaming me for killing her. Annie is by no means gone in this fic, it's just it's not her destiny to fight the approaching evil with Fi and the others, her part in this story is something much different. She'll make her appearance again later. Let me know what you think.
The poem in the beginning was taken from The Pure Illusions Websites, and I didn't have permission so just in case by some infinitely impossible chance the owners of the Website should read this and see the poems, I'm sorry. You're getting credited with the poems, they are not mine. And the song used is from the movie 'The Last Unicorn', again I didn't have permission to use the song either.
Review, let me know what you think. Oh, by the way, can you guess what the second mythological creature was?
Thank you to bubble-of-babble34 and Anne Bowman for reviewing. Hope to see more reviews from you guys and a bunch of others!