-squeaks- Yes! I have returned! -lightning flashes- -_-' Riiiight. anyway.
After having my computer continually boot me off, get my electricity shut
off for more then twenty-four hours, a science report I had to do TWICE, an
English report, being sick, AND having a large case of Writer's Block, I
finally am able to post this. whatever it is. -sweatdrops, sniffs the air
before turning green- Oh, and having my heat stop working. -sighs- I hate
gas stoves/ovens. Anyway, I have a 'review' to reply to. Others may read it
if they wish.
SOLARCLOUD: Well excuse me! You're acting as if you're one of the best writer's ON ff.net! I've got a bit of a list for you.
You say that I said Ayden didn't go to school. In chapter one, I CLEARLY state she does. So that means she has a proper education! About her books; enough people read them to earn her some cash. And her best friend could have helped, as Laila is doing very well in the money department. Her computer is used, so it's a lot cheaper then it usually would have been. If you look closely at chapter one again, Ayden says she lives in an ABANDONED HOUSE. She didn't buy it. She FOUND it. Let's just say I based it on this old house that used to be in my neighborhood. Alto Clarinet: SCHOOL. I know, not many high schools give out instruments, but I based it on my elementary/junior schools. And when I say 'give out', I mean just for the school year. About the friend thing, I never thought of a friend for Ayden 'till later chapters. I'll fix that when I finish this, which shall be in a chapter or two. Canon Fanatic? What the Hell is that? About Devi and Ayden's friendship thingy. At first, Devi is spazing, and later on she gradually accepts Ayden, after figuring out she's not nuts like Johnny. And the voices, HELLO! She's got Sickness, for crying out loud! Yes, Twitch is trying to make Ayden homicidal, but has it worked? No.
So, all in all, you helped out on one part. I know I've got typos and such, but I'm not the type of person to go over something unless I FORCE myself to. Which I'll be trying to from now on. So, thank you, a little bit, but not completely. You mostly just pissed off my best friend and myself. (who is the character I added)
Now that I finished my rant, onto the fic! ^_^ (I never pictured myself using that face. O_o)
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CHAPTER SEVEN
It had been a week since Johnny had died and Ayden had come back. The house was still in a void, and with each passing hour it grew colder.
Ayden had survived only by seeking shelter in the lower parts of the basement and finding food in Johnny's 'kitchen'. She had gotten violently ill from eating moldy bread but after a few hours was fine.
She'd found Johnny's 'Die-ary' and had read it about three times. She'd found and memorized the small paragraph Nny had written before he died. It was poetic and made her think; although the fact that it WAS written in blood did nothing to calm her.
"Senor Diablo said I was needed on Earth, so where the Hell IS Earth?" Ayden said out loud as she weakly climbed the stairs to the ground floor. "And why is Johnny's body not rotting?" she asked as she passed next to the motionless body that was Nny. Indeed, even Rigor Mortis hadn't set in, and that scared Ayden.
The girl hunted as well as she could for food in the kitchen, but alas, none was left. Ayden sighed and rubbed her thin hands together in an attempt to warm them. No good. She shivered and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room; she froze.
Through the cracks in the wooden boards over the windows Ayden could see light! She stumbled over to the front door and opened it carefully. Her eyes widened in shock: everything was normal! There was the street, and Nny's 'yard', and a little boy next door!
Ayden glanced at Johnny when she heard a noise behind her. The man was twitching repeatedly. Suddenly Ayden felt some sort of overwhelming fear wash over her, and she bolted out the door just as Nny opened his eyes.
Johnny didn't know that his sister was now stumbling her way to Devi's house and Ayden had no clue that Nny was alive, if not well.
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Laila sighed, shoving her hands deeper into her pockets. If anyone else had been out at three a.m., they would have noticed a tall teenager with short black hair that had blue ends, wearing olive green cargo pants, a maroon shirt, and brown army boots. They would also have noticed her strange left eye that dripped with some sort of lavender fluid. (A/N: I'm sure several of you are confused. Check out Inanimate_Obsesser and her Jhonen Vasquez story.) She was rather unhappy at the moment; reliving moments of her past in her mind. Every birthday of hers in the last few years seemed to bring some sort of tragedy. On her thirteenth, both her parents died. Fourteenth, her grandmother died. On her fifteenth, she lost her eyesight in one eye. Sixteenth, her best friend, Ayden C., disappeared and was most likely dead.
Suddenly Laila saw movement a few yards in front of her. She peered into the darkness and thought she could see the silhouette of a female about her age. The person seemed to lean against a streetlight before slowly sliding down and letting out a small groan. Surprised, Laila jogged over to the figure and took a sharp intake of breath when the light hit the figure's face.
"Ayden.?" Laila breathed. The other girl's eyelids fluttered open, revealing deeply bloodshot eyes. Her clothes, filthy and blood-encrusted, hung off of her emaciated form. One of the lenses in her glasses was cracked; her hair was greasy and limp. An angry red scar ran along her neck, looking deep enough to kill.
"Lai?" whispered the girl through cracked lips. Laila nodded and kneeled down.
"What happened? Where were you going?" Ayden pointed to a nearby apartment building.
"You'll find out soon enough. Help me up, will ya?" she groaned, trying to stand up but sank down, defeated. Lai quickly lifted Ayden, noticing she was much lighter then she remembered, and half-carried the girl to the apartment building. "Second floor, first door," Ayden murmured. Lai nodded and proceeded to help Ayden up the stairs.
Laila pounded hard on the door as soon as she reached the second floor. A few minutes later muffled footsteps were heard and the door creaked open. A woman in her early twenties with purplish hair in pigtails brandishing a toaster poked her head out. Laila stared at her curiously for a moment before snapping back into reality.
"Please help; my friend Ayden, she's hurt!" babbled Laila, pointing to Ayden who was holding on tightly to the metal railing. She looked up at the woman with glazed eyes.
"Hey Devi. Guess what? I met Nny." Ayden said faintly before her legs gave out and she slumped to the floor, unconscious. Laila looked over at the older woman, who she assumed was 'Devi'. Laila knelt down besides Ayden and tried to wake her up. When nothing happened, Laila sighed inwardly and picked the girl up. She looked at Devi, who was still standing in the doorway, looking very startled and confused.
"Could you. move? No offense, but she's ice-cold and you're just. standin' there," Laila said quietly. Devi nodded mutely and opened the door wider before stepping back. Laila quickly dragged Ayden on to the other woman's couch and looked around for a blanket. Spotting one, she quickly snatched it and threw it on the unconscious girl before turning to Devi, who had shut the door and was clutching the toaster tightly in her right hand as if she was about to whack Laila.
"Who are you? And what the hell happened to Ayden?" Devi hissed, lowering herself into an attack position. Laila looked at her oddly for a moment with her good eye.
"I'm Laila. Call me Lai. As to what happened to Ayden, no clue. I just found her under a lamppost outside this building. Now, pray tell, how do you know Ayden?" Lai said, narrowing her eyes. She could hear Tisha, a.k.a. the lizard tied to her waist, whispering to her, but she ignored it, knowing fully that it meant inflicting pain on someone. Something she wasn't in the mood for.
"As you heard a moment ago, I'm Devi. I met Ayden three weeks before she disappeared. And, I'm guessing, this was all that bastard Johnny's fault," the woman hissed, hands shaking. Lai glanced at Ayden, who seemed to be dreaming, before turning her gaze back to the seething woman by the door.
"Johnny meaning. her brother Johnny? As in the completely insane homicidal maniac brother?" asked Laila, staring at Devi then Ayden, who twitched, as if in pain. "Get the hell away from me you crazy bitch!" screamed Ayden, leaping off of the couch, only to get tied in the blanket and falling to a heap onto the floor, startling the other two from their conversation. The girl groaned and struggled out of the evil grasps of the blanket before looking around blankly. ".What happened?" she asked when she saw Devi and Laila.
"We were thinking the same thing. Where were you for so long?" asked Lai, glaring at the metal lizard at her side for a moment. Ayden sighed and rubbed her neck, flinching as she jabbed one of her long and broken fingernails into the scar tissue.
"I'll give you three guesses," she said, pointing to her neck before getting up. "Yep. The infamous Nny himself," Ayden said when she saw the looks on the other's faces. An awkward silence ensued for a moment before Lai piped up.
"Really Ayden? That's great!" she squeaked with a very giddy look upon her face. (A/N: Think ^-^) Both Ayden and Devi groaned.
"No Lai, not great. He friggin' killed me." Ayden snapped as she stood up, rather shakily. She took a quick look at the others to see two VERY confused and rather startled expressions staring back at her. "Ah. Explanation? Short and simple for now. One month ago, I think, I'm walking home, get attacked, wake up in Nny's basement, get killed, go to Heaven, go to Hell, get sent back, see Johnny die, see a daemon, get stuck in a void for a week, then escape from his house once the universe rewrites itself. I wake up here, end of story. Now, I hate to be rude, but Devi, do you have some food? I haven't had a decent meal in over a month." And with that VERY shortened tale of what happened to Ayden, the girl walked off in the direction of Devi's kitchen, while Devi and Lai stared blankly at each other.
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Yeah, I know. Pretty short. -shrugs- I just want this thing to end so I can work on this dumb Yu-gi-oh fic I might post. which I know will suck since I can hardly ever watch the show. -_-#
PLEASE REVIEW!!!! I've only gotten one review for a really long time and that was basically a flame. -is strangely pleased she was flamed, since it warmed her cold apartment up a little-
SOLARCLOUD: Well excuse me! You're acting as if you're one of the best writer's ON ff.net! I've got a bit of a list for you.
You say that I said Ayden didn't go to school. In chapter one, I CLEARLY state she does. So that means she has a proper education! About her books; enough people read them to earn her some cash. And her best friend could have helped, as Laila is doing very well in the money department. Her computer is used, so it's a lot cheaper then it usually would have been. If you look closely at chapter one again, Ayden says she lives in an ABANDONED HOUSE. She didn't buy it. She FOUND it. Let's just say I based it on this old house that used to be in my neighborhood. Alto Clarinet: SCHOOL. I know, not many high schools give out instruments, but I based it on my elementary/junior schools. And when I say 'give out', I mean just for the school year. About the friend thing, I never thought of a friend for Ayden 'till later chapters. I'll fix that when I finish this, which shall be in a chapter or two. Canon Fanatic? What the Hell is that? About Devi and Ayden's friendship thingy. At first, Devi is spazing, and later on she gradually accepts Ayden, after figuring out she's not nuts like Johnny. And the voices, HELLO! She's got Sickness, for crying out loud! Yes, Twitch is trying to make Ayden homicidal, but has it worked? No.
So, all in all, you helped out on one part. I know I've got typos and such, but I'm not the type of person to go over something unless I FORCE myself to. Which I'll be trying to from now on. So, thank you, a little bit, but not completely. You mostly just pissed off my best friend and myself. (who is the character I added)
Now that I finished my rant, onto the fic! ^_^ (I never pictured myself using that face. O_o)
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CHAPTER SEVEN
It had been a week since Johnny had died and Ayden had come back. The house was still in a void, and with each passing hour it grew colder.
Ayden had survived only by seeking shelter in the lower parts of the basement and finding food in Johnny's 'kitchen'. She had gotten violently ill from eating moldy bread but after a few hours was fine.
She'd found Johnny's 'Die-ary' and had read it about three times. She'd found and memorized the small paragraph Nny had written before he died. It was poetic and made her think; although the fact that it WAS written in blood did nothing to calm her.
"Senor Diablo said I was needed on Earth, so where the Hell IS Earth?" Ayden said out loud as she weakly climbed the stairs to the ground floor. "And why is Johnny's body not rotting?" she asked as she passed next to the motionless body that was Nny. Indeed, even Rigor Mortis hadn't set in, and that scared Ayden.
The girl hunted as well as she could for food in the kitchen, but alas, none was left. Ayden sighed and rubbed her thin hands together in an attempt to warm them. No good. She shivered and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room; she froze.
Through the cracks in the wooden boards over the windows Ayden could see light! She stumbled over to the front door and opened it carefully. Her eyes widened in shock: everything was normal! There was the street, and Nny's 'yard', and a little boy next door!
Ayden glanced at Johnny when she heard a noise behind her. The man was twitching repeatedly. Suddenly Ayden felt some sort of overwhelming fear wash over her, and she bolted out the door just as Nny opened his eyes.
Johnny didn't know that his sister was now stumbling her way to Devi's house and Ayden had no clue that Nny was alive, if not well.
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Laila sighed, shoving her hands deeper into her pockets. If anyone else had been out at three a.m., they would have noticed a tall teenager with short black hair that had blue ends, wearing olive green cargo pants, a maroon shirt, and brown army boots. They would also have noticed her strange left eye that dripped with some sort of lavender fluid. (A/N: I'm sure several of you are confused. Check out Inanimate_Obsesser and her Jhonen Vasquez story.) She was rather unhappy at the moment; reliving moments of her past in her mind. Every birthday of hers in the last few years seemed to bring some sort of tragedy. On her thirteenth, both her parents died. Fourteenth, her grandmother died. On her fifteenth, she lost her eyesight in one eye. Sixteenth, her best friend, Ayden C., disappeared and was most likely dead.
Suddenly Laila saw movement a few yards in front of her. She peered into the darkness and thought she could see the silhouette of a female about her age. The person seemed to lean against a streetlight before slowly sliding down and letting out a small groan. Surprised, Laila jogged over to the figure and took a sharp intake of breath when the light hit the figure's face.
"Ayden.?" Laila breathed. The other girl's eyelids fluttered open, revealing deeply bloodshot eyes. Her clothes, filthy and blood-encrusted, hung off of her emaciated form. One of the lenses in her glasses was cracked; her hair was greasy and limp. An angry red scar ran along her neck, looking deep enough to kill.
"Lai?" whispered the girl through cracked lips. Laila nodded and kneeled down.
"What happened? Where were you going?" Ayden pointed to a nearby apartment building.
"You'll find out soon enough. Help me up, will ya?" she groaned, trying to stand up but sank down, defeated. Lai quickly lifted Ayden, noticing she was much lighter then she remembered, and half-carried the girl to the apartment building. "Second floor, first door," Ayden murmured. Lai nodded and proceeded to help Ayden up the stairs.
Laila pounded hard on the door as soon as she reached the second floor. A few minutes later muffled footsteps were heard and the door creaked open. A woman in her early twenties with purplish hair in pigtails brandishing a toaster poked her head out. Laila stared at her curiously for a moment before snapping back into reality.
"Please help; my friend Ayden, she's hurt!" babbled Laila, pointing to Ayden who was holding on tightly to the metal railing. She looked up at the woman with glazed eyes.
"Hey Devi. Guess what? I met Nny." Ayden said faintly before her legs gave out and she slumped to the floor, unconscious. Laila looked over at the older woman, who she assumed was 'Devi'. Laila knelt down besides Ayden and tried to wake her up. When nothing happened, Laila sighed inwardly and picked the girl up. She looked at Devi, who was still standing in the doorway, looking very startled and confused.
"Could you. move? No offense, but she's ice-cold and you're just. standin' there," Laila said quietly. Devi nodded mutely and opened the door wider before stepping back. Laila quickly dragged Ayden on to the other woman's couch and looked around for a blanket. Spotting one, she quickly snatched it and threw it on the unconscious girl before turning to Devi, who had shut the door and was clutching the toaster tightly in her right hand as if she was about to whack Laila.
"Who are you? And what the hell happened to Ayden?" Devi hissed, lowering herself into an attack position. Laila looked at her oddly for a moment with her good eye.
"I'm Laila. Call me Lai. As to what happened to Ayden, no clue. I just found her under a lamppost outside this building. Now, pray tell, how do you know Ayden?" Lai said, narrowing her eyes. She could hear Tisha, a.k.a. the lizard tied to her waist, whispering to her, but she ignored it, knowing fully that it meant inflicting pain on someone. Something she wasn't in the mood for.
"As you heard a moment ago, I'm Devi. I met Ayden three weeks before she disappeared. And, I'm guessing, this was all that bastard Johnny's fault," the woman hissed, hands shaking. Lai glanced at Ayden, who seemed to be dreaming, before turning her gaze back to the seething woman by the door.
"Johnny meaning. her brother Johnny? As in the completely insane homicidal maniac brother?" asked Laila, staring at Devi then Ayden, who twitched, as if in pain. "Get the hell away from me you crazy bitch!" screamed Ayden, leaping off of the couch, only to get tied in the blanket and falling to a heap onto the floor, startling the other two from their conversation. The girl groaned and struggled out of the evil grasps of the blanket before looking around blankly. ".What happened?" she asked when she saw Devi and Laila.
"We were thinking the same thing. Where were you for so long?" asked Lai, glaring at the metal lizard at her side for a moment. Ayden sighed and rubbed her neck, flinching as she jabbed one of her long and broken fingernails into the scar tissue.
"I'll give you three guesses," she said, pointing to her neck before getting up. "Yep. The infamous Nny himself," Ayden said when she saw the looks on the other's faces. An awkward silence ensued for a moment before Lai piped up.
"Really Ayden? That's great!" she squeaked with a very giddy look upon her face. (A/N: Think ^-^) Both Ayden and Devi groaned.
"No Lai, not great. He friggin' killed me." Ayden snapped as she stood up, rather shakily. She took a quick look at the others to see two VERY confused and rather startled expressions staring back at her. "Ah. Explanation? Short and simple for now. One month ago, I think, I'm walking home, get attacked, wake up in Nny's basement, get killed, go to Heaven, go to Hell, get sent back, see Johnny die, see a daemon, get stuck in a void for a week, then escape from his house once the universe rewrites itself. I wake up here, end of story. Now, I hate to be rude, but Devi, do you have some food? I haven't had a decent meal in over a month." And with that VERY shortened tale of what happened to Ayden, the girl walked off in the direction of Devi's kitchen, while Devi and Lai stared blankly at each other.
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Yeah, I know. Pretty short. -shrugs- I just want this thing to end so I can work on this dumb Yu-gi-oh fic I might post. which I know will suck since I can hardly ever watch the show. -_-#
PLEASE REVIEW!!!! I've only gotten one review for a really long time and that was basically a flame. -is strangely pleased she was flamed, since it warmed her cold apartment up a little-