DARK story!
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Return to Darkness
Chapter 1
Voices in the Deep
If I could go back to when
we'd used to sit beside the lake, talking about anything, I would be happy.
Thinking back about
how innocent and foolish we were and the only
care in the world was to get out of school and cute guys. Those were the
days!
The sun and the water just calling our names.
But they came and changed it all. We're different now, older and maybe
alittle
wiser, too. But the story that I tell you now
did happened, to that I do swear. Whether we have won or lost in the end,
though,
will be up to you...
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Darkness...that was all she
could see but she heard voices. They were whispering something but she
couldn't understand
them.
The girl looked around this
dark place, her waist length orange hair flowed around her while her timed
green eyes
wandering. She wore a white V-neck shirt, a purple
jacket lined in yellow trim and bell bottom jeans. Around her wrist was
a
black bracelet with a fake red heart shape jewel.
She was short for her age which was sixteen.
"Where am I?" asked this girl, even a
fool could tell she was scared.
"Somewhere in-between," stated
the voice.
"Between what?" questioned the girl.
"Everything,"
"Who are you? What are you?"
"I am what you want me to be. Maybe
your self-conscious or just a key,"
"Please say that in a language I can understand.
Riddles aren't my best subject,"
"You'll soon understand everything,
one of the nine,"
"What do you mean, one of the nine?"
"Everything."
Slowly light began to shine
from somewhere. The girl had to cover her eyes because they were used to
the dark. The
darkness was soon engulfed with light. The light
slowly faded into the shore of a lake. That was where she stood.
The lake was formed by an
huge ancient volcanic crater. On one end of the lake dipped down, making
a shore of black
volcanic sand. From the shore, people could get
to a grassy flat ledge cliff where a proud old weeping willow tree and
under
the shade of the tree was a picnic table. Everywhere
else was huge cliffs.
On the near right on the shore
on a flat cliff stood a giant city named Oron. It was a major technology
center for the world.
The city was separated in to six Eranas*. Under
this mega city, was a large water cove where fishermen used it to easily
bring
in the catch of the day.
The girl look out at the lake.
Her little sister was playing there. The girl grinned as her sister made
the motion to come here.
Sighing about getting her clothes wet, the girl
began to wade out to her sister.
Her sister had short messy
black hair and sparking green eyes. She was seven years old and was almost
the height of a
thirteen year old. The sister was wearing a blue
T-shirt with a unicorn on it and rolled up jeans.
The girl slipped on a lake
weed covered rock and went under water. She came back up coughing, spitting
out water and
pulled some of the lake weed out of her hair.
She expected to hear her sister's laugh but none came. The girl looked
around
but her sister was nowhere to be found.
"Kiko!" the girl yelled but her
sister, Kiko, didn't answer.
The girl looked around and
heard a boy's laugh. She spun around to spot one of her friends, who stood
on shore. She
sweared he wasn't there a second ago.
A boy with sandy brown hair
that was spiked and bright blue eyes was rolling on the ground with laugher.
The boy wore a
grey tank top with white words across the front
saying, "CBC*". Along with the tank top he wore tight jet black shorts.
He was
cute...you could say but not the famous actor
or model like cute.
The girl glared and stocked
up to shore. The boy went silent after he saw her coming toward him.
As she walked him, something
caught her eye. Then remembering that she HAD to find her sister, she stopped.
"Nero, did you see Kiko?" asked the girl.
Nero answered with a shake
of his head. It was a no.
The girl sighed and looked
to what had caught her eyes. She turned and saw another of her friends
stood looking out from
the grassy flat ledge cliff. The girl ran up
to the cliff.
Her friend had shoulder length
wavy blonde hair that was in a lose pony tail and violet eyes. She wore
a light blue spaghetti
top with a black tank top underneath and a jean
skirt. She had the same wrist bracelet as the girl but the friend had a
necklace
with a ring on it. The friend was a few feet
taller than the girl and was the same age as the girl.
Huffing and puffing the girl
asked her friend,
"Have you seen Kiko?"
Her friend shook her head
and held out her left hand. The girl looked at her friend with questioned
eyes and her friend
held her hand out further. The girl ran to her
friend just in case she too disappeared. She started to slow down and hoped
her
friend wouldn't mind her running into her. But
the impact never came, the girl went straight through her friend! The girl
tried
to stop herself from falling off the cliff but
couldn't. She turned to try and grab some of the rocks on the cliff wall
but she
couldn't get a grip.
"Aurora!" the girl screamed as she
saw her friend, Aurora, look over the edge. Aurora just smirked, her eyes
sparkling with
some unearthly shade. At that moment, the girl
knew that that wasn't the real Aurora.
The girl closed her eyes and
reopened them a second later, as the water grew closer. To her surprise,
the impact of the water
didn't hurt at all. She swam back up to the surface
of the water. As she took a breathe of air, she was about to yell at this
fake
Aurora. But the cliff and everything else wasn't
there. She was swimming in the middle of an ocean! She looked and saw
something dark coming in the distance. Before
she knew it she was standing in the same dark place she was and few moments
ago.
A shrill bird cry echoed throughout
the dreary place. Startled, the girl turn to face a huge falcoon* that
stood proud. It
spread its wings and as it shrieked again, stars
erupted from it, spreading all over the place. The girl looked around in
amazement. The stars whipped pass her, either
going through her as if her wasn't there or around her. The stars all of
a sudden
stopped. The place looked like pictures of space
that she had seen. She turned her attention back to the falcoon,
who shrieked
once more. The falcoon faded into stars. The
girl recognized it as the lunarin* of the Falcoon Gregoras*.
Suddenly, the floor began
to turn purplish, navy bluish color under the girl's feet. Before the girl
could scream, it sucked
her in.
Everything was dark, and the
girl was falling once more. She could barely move at all, much less scream.
"Your journey will be hard. Take
care, Star key-bearer, some things aren't the way they seem."
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The girl woke with a jolt
not because she thought she was swallowed by that thing on that floor,
just that someone had just
dumped water on her. The dream soon faded from
her thoughts as she glared at Aurora, who was laughing.
In Aurora's hands laid her
trusty acoustic guitar. Electric guitars were just too expensive and so
that her family would go
back into debt bought that one for 50 hins*.
"Aurora, mother will kill me!" stated
the girl.
All Aurora did was point to
Nero. He was holding a red bucket and quickly tried to hide it behind
his back when he saw
her stare. The girl glared at him. The boy did
a wimpy chuckle, while scratching his head with the open hand and took
off,
dropping the bucket.
"Nero, you are soo gonna die," said the
girl took off after him.
After a few minutes of chasing
him, the girl sat down huffing and puffing. Aurora sighed as she watched
the girl. Nero
stood there grinning and the girl still trying
to get a breathe, glared.
"That's if you can catch me," said Nero
proudly. The girl frowned as her glare deepen.
"Shut up."
"Lordly, Melani, what do you do when Mrs.
Perkins makes us do crono laps*?" said Aurora as she shook her head.
"Secretly bringing roller airs*..." stated
Melani.
"No wonder, " said Nero.
"So what I'm the smart one, Aurora's the
athletic one, and you...well I haven't figured what your useful for," said
Melani.
"Comic relief," stated Aurora.
"Woa, Aurora actually listening in Mr.
Waton's class! That's a first," said Nero.
"You know if Melani doesn't catch you
first, I am gonna get you personally," said Aurora as she started to strum
her guitar,
"Anyways that is the only class I actually listen
in but I chose not to show it."
Everything went silent except
for Melani' giggles and the boats out on the lake. After a second, Aurora
starting strumming
again as Melani got up and sat next to her. Nero
decided to sit as far away from the girl as possible just in case they
attacked.
He sat near the shore cleaning and fixing up
his crono board*.
After thirty minutes, the
three decided to head back to Oron. Aurora packed her guitar in a water-proof
case as Melani
found the red bucket and dumped sand on Nero.
Aurora got on her water board*, which Melani got her for her birthday,
as
Melani held onto Aurora's waist. Nero got on
his crono board and hovered over the water while he waited for the girls
to be
ready. The three took off.
As they went across the lake,
Nero and Aurora began trying to out do each other in tricks while the now
freaked out Melani
held on for dear life. By the time they got into
the cave under the city and onto its streets, Melani was literally kissing
the
ground and chewing Aurora out.
"Okay, okay I promise not to do it again...well
at lest when your not on it," said Aurora.
"I swear I saw my life flash by as you
two tried to see who could do the 260 higher," stated Melani as they arrived
at a crono
tram station*.
"It must have not have been that much
of a life...it wound take me a whole hour probably to see my life," said
Nero.
"I hope I'd never see my life flash by,"
said Aurora which produced a deadly silence.
None of them spoke till after
they had caught the crono tram and left the station. The sun was slowly
fading as the three said
good bye to each other.
"Tonight," stated Nero.
"Na crap, Nero, of course we know," said
Melani.
"At the shore, mid-night," said Aurora
ignoring the two's bickering, "you can sneak out, right?"
"Sure, the genius is on the case," said
Melani proudly.
"That's what we're worried about," said
Nero.
"Shut up," said Melani threatening.
"Knock it off," said Aurora.
"Fine, see yah," said Melani as she walked
to her house.
"What ever," grumbled Nero as he too went
to his house, leaving Aurora alone.
"Bye," said Aurora to the empty air.
She went back to the crono
station alone for that was the middle class area. The very last stop was
her own. Aurora left the
tram station into a very run down part of the
city.
They were sometimes call the
back water parts of the city. Aurora couldn't blame them either. If there
was murders,
lynchings, drug operations, stealings or fires,
it would be found here.
After trudging through the
old streets, Aurora finally reached home. Walking upstairs, with a hello
to her brothers who
were crowding around the old, rusty TV. Being
the only girl in the family wasn't that tuff...well except for the fact
that they
are always in your stuff.
Shooing Ernic and Oren out
of her room, she tried to finish her homework. Finally deciding she'd copy
it off Melani,
Aurora went down to try and make dinner. Macaroni
and cheese was all she could make, so her brothers had to deal.
After dinner she did her chores
and got ready to sneak out. A hour till mid-night, she was out of the house
and making a
b-line to the tram station.
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The three of them laid over
a blanket near the willow. Melani was jabbering on about what they were
about to see. Aurora
and Nero, who were completely ignoring her, were
making jokes about teachers they hated, pranks they would play and
cracking up. Melani went silent, when she figured
out they weren't listening anyways.
"Its a good thing that Oron's lights don't
reach this far over the lake," stated Melani suddenly. Both Aurora and
Nero looked
up from their plan about what pranks to play
on the freshmans.
"Yeah, it would ruined it," said Aurora.
"So...what are we looking for again?"
asked Nero. The girls sighed (can anyone say anime sweat drop...good).
"Dimwit," stated Aurora.
"Well I don't know, Einstein, waiting!"
exclaimed Melani.
"For what?"
"The Dextrex Meteor Shower, supposedly
the best shower for the millennia!" said Melani sounding like a computer.
"So says the the computer text book,"
said Aurora.
"Shut up," said Melani. Aurora stuck her
tongue out at Melani. Nero let out a chuckle as Melani hit him. Nero got
shoved
into Aurora because of the punch. Aurora shoved
back.
"Shh, I thought I saw one," said Melani.
Aurora and Nero, who were
punching each other went silent. Sure enough, thousands of shooting star
fell across the sky.
After a few moments of watching, they dared to
speak.
"Wow!" exclaimed Nero.
"Agreed!" said Melani.
"Geeze, Melani can't you NOT sound like
a nerd for this!?" stated Nero. Melani glared, making Nero fall quiet.
"Sweet...um..." said Aurora as she drifted
off.
"What?" asked Nero and Melani at the same
time.
"That one seems to be really falling."
"No, your just...AHHH!!" started Melani
as a meteorite the size of a buggy (car) appeared.
The meteorite fell into the
lake making a loud crash. A huge wave was formed because of it. The three
of the stood up and
watched.
"You think it would hit us?" asked Nero.
"Yeah..." said Melani.
"And we're still standing here because?!"
yelled Aurora.
"Run..." commanded Nero.
"Na shit," stated Aurora.
"Reino*, Aurora, reino!" said Melani as
they ran to the side of the cliff farthest away from the lake.
"And you're worrying about that in a time
like this?" asked Nero. Melani glared and began to mumble to herself.
The
whole world seemed to have an unearthly silence until the wave hit the
cliffs, making it shake. Melani screamed and
fell to the ground while Nero and Aurora fought
to keep standing. The shaking finally subdued, and Melani stood up.
"Guys...hate to sound like a walo* but
I want to go home," said Melani.
"Agreed," said Nero as Aurora and Melani
looked at him, dum struck, until they arrived at the shore, "What?"
"Nero's actually agreed with Melani,"
said Aurora. Nero glared and tackled her. After Aurora and Nero fought
for awhile,
Aurora was victorious.
"Geeze...why did your dad teach you Martial
Arts?" asked Nero as he clutch his bruised arm.
"Family tradition...and I hate it, too,"
said Aurora.
"Why?" asked Melani as she put on her
roller airs.
"Because it was during water ball* training,"
said Aurora as if it was obvious while she strapped herself onto her water
board.
"You act too tom boyish," said Melani
as Nero got on his crono board.
"Oh and I'm gonna waste my hins on 'stylish'
clothes that I will out grow sooner or later," said Aurora, "I think not!"
The three took off over the lake,
Nero and Aurora doing tricks on the waves. The trio got to shore and headed
to their homes.
As Melani reached her house, she was greeted
by her very much asleep sister.
"How was it?" her sister asked in a timid,
tired voice.
"Interesting," stated Melani.
"Interwesting?" questioned Kiko.
"In-ter-est-ing," said Melani.
"Interesting," repeated Kiko.
"Right," said Melani.
"What does it mean?" asked Kiko.
"It was cool," stated Melani.
"Okay...um Mel, what does cool mean?"
asked Kiko, her innocent eyes question.
Melani sighed. She picked
that word up from Aurora, who lived in the quatel*, so most of the rich
probably didn't know
what that meant.
"It was fun," said Melani.
"Good becawse mommy and daddy would have
growned you if I told!" said Kiko.
"Grounded...Kiko, grounded," said Melani
as she silently opened the door. The two stunk up stairs and went to Kiko's
room. Melani tucked her sister in bed.
"Thank you, Kiko," said Melani, "Oh, and
good luck at the competition!"
"My book and me are gonna kick but!" stated
Kiko as if it was a fact.
"Kiko, where did you learn to say that?!?!"
exclaimed Melani, quietly.
"Aurora..." whisper Kiko, innocently.
Melani sighed and kissed her
sister on the forehead. After turning on the Barneio the Darex* night light,
which Melani
glared at, she left her sister's room.
"Aurora!" thought Melani as she got ready
for bed.
She got into bed and looked
out the window. Melani began to wonder about that meteorite. But of all
hers and thousands of
others guess would never come close to the truth
(maybe those people whose thought it was aliens...).No none knew what the
they saw was the beginning of the end of their
world, Yanio.
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Preview for Next Chapter:
Melani awoke cold. She had
fallen asleep...again.
Everything around was darken;
the sky, the lake, everything. The beach that she fell asleep at had an
unearthly silence to it.
Even the waves weren't making a sound.
She closed her eyes and quickly
reopened them when she swear she saw something move in the corner of her
eye. Turning
to look, Melani screamed as she saw a black shadowish
creature. Its antenna was waving around as it got closer and closer to
her, ready to pounce. Its yellow eyes almost
seemed to see right through her.
Melani quickly got up and
ran, as more shadows appeared. She tripped over her untied shoe laces and
fell back to the
ground. She screamed as one of them pounce, its
sharp claws slashing at her chest...
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What the *stars* mean
*Eranas
- think of them as districts
*CBC -
Crono Boarder's Competition
*Falcoon
- Just drop the second 'o', it spells falcon. It looks like one, too.
*Lunarin
- constellation
*Gregoras
- The god of the sky in ancient Quato*.
*Quato
- its a culture some what like the greek and almost everyone on Yanio has
heard of it.
*Hins
- Yanio's money, triangle shaped gold coins
*Crono
- in Nerian* means air; therefore crono laps are air laps. The track floats
up into the air so that the teacher hope that
students do not cheat. But some bring roller
air which is roller blade that can float on air. Therefore, the wearer
blades on air.
The same with the air board as with the crono
tram. The tram has an invisible track.
*Nerian
- one of the oldest and most know languages besides english. Every child
is taught it but in most cities, English* is
used. But in most towns and villages outside
the Allos Revertio*, Nerian is used commonly.
*English - said to have been brought
by a man who came in a ship from outer space that 'sealed the world's heart'
with a key
blade and by some other outer space people who
came there. (Please note that story is five months after Sora's Kingdom
Hearts. But the story did say that the key blade
chooses its owner and if that was the first keybearer, they wouldn't know
that.)
*Allos Revertio
- A large mountain range that divides the world into the Neri* and Torasi*
sides. Neri is where they mostly
speak Nerian (du) and Torasi is where they
speak mostly English.
*Neri
- Its larger than Torasi.
*Torasi
- Its smaller than Neri. Both are countries of their own. They once were
united until the World War, in which a man
became the leader of a large provicen* called
Esters. He change everything in that Ge'lo* into a dictatorship (Hitler!!!!)
and
gathered followers. They took over other provicens
and killed Inos* because they blamed everything on the inos.
*Provicen
- State/province if you live in Britain or Canada
*Ge'lo
- government
*Ino
- they are some what like jews. The way they killed the inos was like Holocaust.
*Water board - almost the same
as a surf board but a water board has its own little engine
*Water ball - is a game that is
some thing like soccer except its rules are slightly different, played
with hands instead and on
water boards on water. Hence the word water.
*Reino
- a less known language of Yanio but many people have heard of it. Melani
on this world would have said "french"
instead.
*Walo
- In Earth terms Melani would be saying, "Guys...hate to sound like a CHICKEN
but I want to go home." Walo is a
flight-less bird that looks like a cross between
a large flightless bird and dog...how I came up with it, don't ask. It
had to do
with a dum dream.
*Quatel
- think of it as the projects but worst.
*Barneio the Darex
- think of the evil purple dinosaur that sings those evil little song when
you were a kid...dam Barney.
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What yeh think? Crapy...I
guess. I created a whole world...to be destroyed later...next chapter.
R&R
