Disclaimer: I don¡¯t own anything pirate or slayer related except for this nifty PotC tee and a couple of Buffy books.
¡°Earth shakes, stone breaks
The forest is at your door
The woods have awoken
The trees have gone to war
Roots rend, wood bends
The Ents have answered the call
Through branches now the wind sings
Feel the power of living things
The trees have gone to war
Rithannen i gaven
Thangen i harn
Na fennas i daur
Ol dur ristannen
Eryn echuiannen
I ngelaidh dagrar
Ristar thynd, cua tawar
Dambedir enyd i ganed
Si linna I waew trin ylf
Isto I dur I chuiyl
I ngelaidh dagrar¡±
-The Ents (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Anyway, thanks for reading WhiteShiner or MoonStar1233. You do realize that above song was just to bulk up the pages. =) I think its working so far. Anyways, back to the story:
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Torrance was staring into space, thinking about nothing in particular when suddenly, she felt clammy, like someone had poured a bucket of ice cold water down her back. She shivered when she heard something. It was like a soft murmur that seemed to be coming from Torrance¡¯s own mind. Torrance concentrated on the voice, trying to hear what it was saying. Get away, go back to your own time before she traps you. Before you become like us. You still have time. A foreboding voice recited. The voice intensified in volume every time it repeated the same string of sentences. As Torrance focused all her energy on identifying the voice, she realized that the voice was actually a chorus of female voices. But as Torrance shook herself awake, the voice disappeared. Torrance felt cold all over. Maybe staying here isn¡¯t such a good idea she thought. She glanced down at her biology book and saw that the words on the page were barely readable, they were so faint. Torrance pinched herself to awake herself but she realized that her vision wasn¡¯t the problem, the book was. Torrance stood up and picked up the book. Sand fell out from between the pages. That was strange but before she could examine it, she heard a boom.
Torrance¡¯s head jerked up. She knew that the pirates were attacking and she wanted to be in on all the action. Will was already at the door, picking out his weapons. ¡°Stay here! And don¡¯t open the door for anyone,¡± he called out and ran out the door like a shot. Torrance shoved her book in her bag and ran out, not heeding Turner¡¯s directions. All thoughts about the mysterious voices and her textbook was pushed into the back of her mind as she ran out the door. Torrance spotted the pirate that Turner had momentarily stopped with his axe start to push off his hands to stand up. Torrance ran over to him and crushed his head with her heel. ¡°Stay down,¡± Torrance muttered as she desperately racked her mind, trying to remember the location of the Swann manor.
No need, Torrance thought as she turned around and saw a hill with a huge mansion and a band of pirates with torches walking up the hill. Torrance power walked through the streets trying to find a path that would lead her to the mansion. All around her, she saw destruction and death. Most of the buildings were on fire and people were screaming and running, some toward inland, some just in circles. Torrance felt a hand on her shoulder and whirled around. ¡°Hello, pretty,¡± a smiling pirate with yellow teeth and really bad breath said.
Torrance grabbed the hand on her shoulder and twisted it counter clockwise until she could hear a crack. ¡°Ergh!¡± the pirate cried as he fell to his knees. Torrance raised her right leg and trapped the pirate¡¯s head between her calf and her thigh while she searched in her bag for a weapon, any weapon. She found her chobos which seemed to be nestled in something gritty, but ignoring that, gripped the two sticks. Torrance twirled the chobos expertly in her hand and poked the pirate¡¯s eye with the end of one chobo, then hit him in the head with the other one. ¡°You don¡¯t know what you¡¯re doing girl. We can¡¯t'¡± he spat out but was interrupted by Torrance twisting her leg so that his neck snapped and his body spun 180 degrees. ¡°Die?¡± Torrance asked, releasing the pirates unconscious neck from between her leg. ¡°Of course, but I can still knock you out,¡± Torrance said to particularly no one since the only one who had been paying attention to her was sprawled all over the cobblestone street, presumably out cold for a hour, or however long it took for immortal pirates to recuperate.
Torrance was about to walk away when she noticed his sword tucked into its sheath. That might become useful, Torrance decided, tearing the whole belt away from the pirate¡¯s waist. She grabbed the sword by the hilt and looked around. There was a prospective path to her left. She had decided that each choice was as good as the next one but that one seemed to feel right and began jogging toward hopefully what would be the entrance to the path. Thank God, Torrance thought as she found that the path indeed led up to the mansion. The way was fairly short but Torrance knew that the pirates had already been inside, and presumably had Elizabeth with them. She burst through the open iron gate and started jogging toward the mansion.
I must be psychic, Torrance thought sarcastically, as she saw the two pirates walking down the circular 1700¡¯s driveway with Elizabeth in between. She wasn¡¯t struggling so she still must believe that pirates can be governed by rules of law, Torrance thought as she dived into a bunch of hedges. She had always respected the pirate¡¯s code of honor, their mantra. They weren¡¯t under the control of any laws, and so they were free to do whatever they wanted without consequences...unless they were caught. And they lived for themselves, unlike her, who lived for others, giving up her social life and her nights to protect people from vampires and demons.
By the way, where was Will with all of this? Torrance asked herself. Slacker, Torrance added to her list of sucky qualities about the half breed pirate who seemed to be able to woo all girls, except for her but especially her step sister, Elise, who would have thrown herself at him the second she saw him. Elise was still clueless to the fact that Torrance was a slayer, as was everybody in her household, which was kind of naive considering the fact that she seemingly always went to sleep without any apparent injuries and woke the next morning with bruises and scrapes. But this wasn¡¯t the time to think about that, Torrance sensed as the pirates with Elizabeth walked past the hedges she was hiding in. Torrance crouched in the hedges until she was sure that they were at least 10 meters ahead of her. Then, Torrance pulled herself up and brushed off her pants, and then silently, started stalking the trio.
She examined their backs as she had nothing to do since creeping silently came easily, due to the fact that she was used to doing it a lot, especially when she was tracking a vampire or demon. They were open. She could easily take the two pirates and save everybody a whole lot of trouble but something nagged in the back of her mind. What if I free Elizabeth and the pirates leave without getting Turner? Torrance thought. Then, she realized that even if she did, the pirates would probably come back for her. Fate is inevitable, Torrance realized. Then she looked up and was in front of the Black Pearl.
Or technically, she was about 50 feet away from it, standing on the sandy beach. Suddenly, there was another boom and Torrance was deafened temporarily by the loud cannon. She turned and saw the cannonball heading toward the center of town, and five seconds later, Torrance knew that the target had been hit. The explosion was enormous. The sky seemed to be lit on fire, and raining burning rubble on Torrance. Torrance scurried under the pier that stood near the beach and looked around for Elizabeth and the pirates.
Torrance saw them about twenty feet off, getting in the rowboat. Then the two pirates pushed off shore and set off for the Black Pearl. Torrance wondered what to do. She could:
A. Follow the pirates, towards the boat, but probably get caught, or
B. Go back to town, and kick some pirate butt.
Torrance turned quickly on her heels and started jogging towards Port Royal. Suddenly, a woman appeared in front of her. She looked pale and had a kind of eerie glow. Her brown hair floated around her face and accented her bright green eyes. She was wearing an intricate dress embroidered, and looked like it was at least twenty pounds, which served to shrink her small frame. She was beautiful, and Torrance thought she could do no harm. She was probably just an innocent bystander, but then she started to contort. Her face was pulled back and her gleaming teeth turned into fangs, her hair transformed into a nest of snakes and her dress turned into a thick armor made of some kind of thick hide. Her pale face turned blue and her eyes into narrow slits. She grew until she was about seven feet and no longer looked remotely human. Instead, she looked like some otherworldly demon, which she probably was. ¡°What the f..¡± Torrance began to say, just as the demon swung the back of her hand toward her head. It hit Torrance straight on the chin and Torrance fell over and started drifting toward the brink of unconciousness.
Just before everything around her faded into blackness, she head the demoness say, ¡°Before this week is over, slayer, you will learn to fear the name'Lilithanya.¡±
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1,529 words. Hmm, not bad'..