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The Dragon
Chapter 1
Who are you?
~* Rogue's P.O.V.*~
She ran.
She was obviously terrified and for some reason her fear caused me fear and I felt that I wanted to help her .I knew I had to help her. I ran after her.
'Please stay away from me, go away!' she cried in utter desperation.
No, I thought, Please I'm trying to help you I'm not going to hurt you.
'NO GO AWAY!' She was running away from me but why.
'Wait!' I called, I was also desperate in catching the girl but for some reason I didn't have a clue why only there was only a sensation inside of me telling me to know why was she running away. Was it because I was a mutant?
No.
I knew I hadn't hurt her in any way but now days normal human beings seemed to be disgusted by mutants by only knowing they were but not knowing what truly they were. I had this unexplainable urge to know.
Know what her fear was.
Know why this temptation had formed inside of me to follow.
Know all the answers of this bizarre situation.
Know the reason to why she was fleeing with such speed, why is she running away with such heart pounding fear?
I pursued in full speed following her every move. I looked around my surroundings to identify my current location. Our current location. But everything was dark as though covered by a veil.
The Earth below,
The sky above,
The objects around us were all black. Infact I was running through darkness with only some light from my aura guiding my way. I wasn't even sure if I was in a house, a room, a place outside but only that I was running through darkness. Never ending darkness.
Wait, I can feel air rushing across my face and playing with my hair, a breeze. Yes, it surely was and earth tapping against my heels like if it was some kind of stone. Cement.
Yes, I was outside! But where?
The black of darkness was so thick that I couldn't identify anything because there was nothing and no sound except for the rushing movement of air and the girl's heels and mine pounding on the hard ground, and only our panting breaths. Had some my senses gone numb for some unexplained reason or was it this place?
I cleared my mind of all these questions for some seemed pretty irrelevant to me but my sight and other senses focused on the girl.
Still fleeing I was determined to catch her as we continued to run and then the chase came to an end for she seemed to have reached a dead end.
'Go away! Stop bothering me!' she screamed as I neared her.
'No wait, please I don't wanna hurt you, why are you so afraid of me?' I asked but she paid no attention to what I was saying.
'NO STOP! PLEASE!' she screamed and fell on the ground as hot tears raced across her pretty, doll-like face.
'Stop what? I'm not doing anything! Do you hear me?' I cried, I wanted to make her understand that though I am a mutant I'm not insane enough to go around hurting people or was she losing it?
She still paid no attention to what I was saying but held her head as if she was trying to block out some noises.
'Why won't you listen to me damn-it!' I screamed angrily as she was ignoring all my attempts to make her understand that I wasn't going to hurt her, 'Why won't you listen to me!'
'Please stop,' she seemed to be losing all her strength as she fell fully on the hard ground and her hands were no longer on her head because she seemed to think it was a futile effort to block out whatever she wasn't trying not to hear in the first place, 'I beg of you.' She continued to beg.
Why is she acting like this? I thought deeply, Why is she afraid of m- what a minute, I swung around immediately and my eyes were scanning the darkness, Giggles?
Yes, they were giggles like from clowns but something didn't seem right there was some sort of malice in them and then finally it, they or whatever emerged.
I couldn't describe them they were ugly, freaky and disgusting to look at but my eyes stared at them and I couldn't look away as though my body started to have its own free will and my thoughts, my mind were no longer in control.
They, they were clowns or were they. I mean they had faces of clowns all covered up with makeup but their faces were elongated like snouts and teeth were more like sharp steel that cut through flesh like if it were paper. They had no-no skin you could see their entrails and everything and the worse was maggots were feeding on some of their organs. They had claws and they matched with their teeth quite nicely. I knew I read some horror stories concerning clowns who were monsters like this and you know you laugh at most of them but when something like this encounters you face to face the laughter is quickly replaced by fear and believe me my laughter was.
These things were coming closer to the girl and me, I guess its time to high tail it outta here. I raced towards the girl who was also staring in trance at those things and tears were like coming out of her automatically and fear made her shake as though there was an earthquake going inside of her. I sat in front of her, 'Listen, get up we gotta get outta here.'
She shook, she stared and she still paid no attention to what I was saying to her, 'Listen, We-' the horror got me then I had placed a arm on her well covered shoulder but it went through. I tried it once again but with the same results. I swung my arms around haphazardly but it seemed to go through the girl's body as if she wasn't a solid being in the first place. I felt like Kitty when she phased through things around her but even Kitty knew how to control her phasing when she is concentrating but I felt nothing. I turned around and so those creatures getting nearer and soon I did something extremely stupid I ran towards them though my fear was still clinging to me.
I went near one of those creatures and BANG!
I kicked it so hard that it would be airborne but it was the same thing- my leg had gone through the creature and it went through me.
'PLEASE GO AWAY! PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU!!!!!' the girl screamed with her last remaining effort.
As if by some twist of fate the creatures disappeared and soon the girl starting crying in relief but as the silence stretched so did my senses. Silence was the enemy. There had to be a reason why those things listened to her this time. I had already figured out that those things were the cause of the girl fleeing and not me but she was pleading with them all this time and they hadn't stop following her…why now?
Footprints.
Footprints echoed through the darkness and senses were alerted so was hers and that is when a figure came out.
I couldn't see his/her face or his body just a white line outlining his/her body. The noise pierce through me like sharp daggers. Scream.
It was from the girl.
Someone she was able to perfectly view the figure while I could only see its silhouette and I believed it was truly grotesque otherwise she would have stopped screaming.
Sarah, Sarah, screaming won't help nothing will help. Your resistance is a futile effort, The cold, emotionless, heartless voice sounded like a man's voice so it gave me signs that this silhouette could be a man.
Well as the pitch of the screams deepened I started staring that some enormous gush of wind had come out of nowhere and I raised my hand to cover myself from it. This girl called Sarah was screaming and crying as the figure came closer and I wanted to protect the girl but as the figure neared I drew further away and though I struggled to go back and protect the girl my hands and legs were bound by some invisible force and it forcefully pulled me back despite my struggles and soon I was falling.
Falling.
Into the darkness.
Into the Abyss.
My screams blended with the girl's as I kept on falling.
This is a dream, I had the same fear resurfacing on me again, Or am I dead?
I then realized that I had stopped falling and I could hear birds singing sweetly as some breeze played with my bangs.
I carefully opened my eyes, not rushing the process and then I was blessed by the view.
Endless blue greeted me above and below. The blue below was the ocean, which was so vast that I couldn't see anything beyond it and it was teeming with the glorious life of the deep.
The sky was blue but it was mixed carefully with the white skinned clouds and the golden haze of the sun as it rays kissed my face. The sandy beach I was settled in was filled with such fine sand that it seemed virgin to me. Above the beach was a floral paradise, as exotic flowers seemed to occupy every inch, ever blade of grass and the trees were also of the same sort.
My mind begins to ask new questions to where I was, first surrounded by utter darkness and fear and now surrounded by light and beauty.
Where was I?
Heaven?
Or some untouched Paradise?
My questions seemed endless but they stopped when I realized I was inches above
the ground like if I were floating. I immediately looked up again and a pair of
azure eyes greeted me. I stared at the face as long as I could.
It was a boy.
He had long, red, flowing hair which was tied in a ponytail and he had fine features and-and he was carrying me in his arms and it seemed to him I was light as a feather.
His orbs.
They were so beautiful, so rare in color, so hypnotizing that I couldn't look away. He was looking into my very being, my very existence.
He raised his hand and went to touch my face and I was struck with the utter nightmare called reality.
NO! I screamed but I came to know no words were coming out of my mouth though how much effort I was putting in making the letters come out.
I shut my eyes waiting for the cries of pain as my cursed flesh draws out his inner strength.
Touch.
My eyes went wide as if they were two planets.
Caress.
I looked at him and he was smiling as he caressed my skin as though he was trying to make me calm and steady.
His Touch made me feel alive for the rest time in my whole existence.
I had tears in my eyes, all this time I had wanted to feel someone even if it were for a moment and I felt God had finally granted me this wish.
He wiped my tears and I opened my mouth for the words felt like they were going to come out now but he drew his finger and traced my lips sensitively as if he knew what I wanted to say.
The smile he gave remained in my mind though the vision faded away.
The sun's golden rays seemed to peak out of the curtains and reach my face. I opened my eyes slowly as I was greeted by the sounds of chirping birds and a sleeping Kitty.
I twitched my fingers a little as I still lay there on my bed and my eyes seemed to focus on nothing.
'Who are you?'
Those were the only words that seemed to echo in the still silent room, as the other sounds seemed to be the inhaling and exhaling breaths of a fast asleep Kitty.
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Well that was the second chapter. I hope you enjoyed it, I'll update as soon as I can!
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