A New Darkness
Note: The characters in this story are mine except for my neofriends and their pets...Also... I don't own neopets. Even though I wish so I could change a few things... Well… Onto the story!
Chapter 1
Golden Apollo rides though the celestial sphere, vanishing beneath the horizon, giving way to the evening tide. Washing in the indigo sky, dust touched stars as numerous as the grains of sand in the vast ocean are emulated in the serene lake below. They shine down upon a lone young woman sitting on the edge of a lake amidst a collection of trees. Hidden in the trees is a man watching the young woman carefully so as to not let her take notice of him. He notices that the young woman has medium-length, light brown hair tied back in a braid by a rope with beads wrapped around through the braid, her dark coat that ends at her waist, and form-fitting clothes. Gazing up at the stars, the young woman sighs wistfully as she is lost in the beautiful sight of the twinkling gems. The man continued to watch her and a small smirk almost comes across his face before it vanishes as if it was never there. He watches the woman leave into the woods as it was getting close to midnight.
About half an hour later, the woman came to a house on the outskirts of the woods. It was a large house with six rooms. Suddenly, a winged, purplish creature flew from the balcony on the second floor and stopped short of hitting the female before landing onto the ground. Two more creatures ran out of the front door of the house with lightning speed and ran right into the flying creature.
"Ouch! Black! Serri! That hurt!" The creature yelled at the two. Both Black, a blue wolf/dog, and Serri, a blue goat-like creature, muttered apologies at the incident while the girl just stood there with a raised eyebrow. A small, white grundo then walked slower towards the group. "Come on Taini! Mom's back!" They then turned toward the woman and the expressions on their faces were ecstatic.
"So... Was everything alright while I was gone?" The woman asked while smiling at their happiness.
"Yeah. Black was turned into a female again by the ray. I think the ray has fun making him gender challenged…" The winged creature sniggered.
"Silver! Arg! Why must you pick on me?" Black wined at the winged creature.
"Because it's fun!" Black just groaned at this comment since he knew the torment wasn't over yet.
"Alright you guys. Lets go inside and eat. Okay?" The mother replied trying to break the tension between her pets. All four of them went inside the house and into the kitchen to eat. You can mostly hear squeals like "Yay! Food!" and "No! Not Omelets again!!" coming from inside the house. By the time they finished eating, it was late at night. The young mother told her pets it was time for bed so they trudged grudgingly upstairs and got ready for bed.
Once they were asleep, the woman opened up her laptop in her room and noticed she had an invite to a chat room from some of her friends from the guild, Gold Star. She clicked on the invite and a window popped up.
Youngsilverwolf02: Hey all. How's it going?
Falcongirl02: Hey Young. Not much, you?
PBD: Hey! Not much.
Met: Hey. Same here.
Young: Ah. Tis the same here.
(chat continues)
Young shut down her laptop and closed the lid. "Time for bed I guess." She stood up while yawning and opened the window to let the night breeze in. She then changed into her nightclothes and slid into bed under her warm covers soon to fall into the depths of her dreams.
As she slept, the thin, male figure from earlier crept into the room silently through the open window and his gaze traveled to the woman lying in bed. He smirked at the figure before he walked over and whispered a sleeping spell to make sure she did not wake while he was there. He then walked over to her laptop, turned it on, and checked to see whom she talked to and about what it was she talked about to gain information. After he was done, he shut down the laptop and walked back over to her. He wrote a symbol on her neck and whispered something into her ear before escaping into the night.
Young woke up gasping from the searing pain in her neck. She stumbled half asleep and painfully over to her mirror to see what was on her neck to cause her such pain. A symbol of a dragon. She stared at her neck in disbelief. Could it be? Is he still alive? If so, how is it even possible? She gazed at the white flare of the dragon now permanently emblazed into her neck, which the light was slowly fading away. As the pain faded, Young went back to her bed and fell into a troubled sleep filled with nightmares from her past.
Around dawn (okay a few hours PAST dawn), the young woman was up and in the kitchen making food for her pets. The kitchen had an electric stove, a microwave, a table with chairs, and a sink with cabinets all around. With the four creatures sitting around the table, each of them half asleep but hungry nonetheless, Young served breakfast.
"Alright... I have a few things to do today so do you mind taking care of the shop Silver?" Young asked with a smile knowing that Silver loved being in charge of the shop and selling other neopians items.
"Sure mum!" Silver said enthusiastically while Black just grumbled and muttered things about not liking the lab scientist. "Awe Black. Don't forget you need to see him. Who knows, you might become male again!"
"Wow... I have achieved something no one could have. I received a compliment from my sister!" Black said sarcastically but yet meaning what he said. Serri and Taini just giggled and continued eating at Silver's death glare.
Once breakfast was over, her pets traveled to the shop while she walked through the deep woods to one of her guild member and long-time friend's house. Wild Petri's chirped as Young walked through but only watched. She of course makes sure she has nothing on her so the pant devil couldn't steal anything other than her dagger which she'd kill him before she let him have it. As she walked, the male followed her, matching his steps with hers so she wouldn't be able to tell if someone was following or not. A small stone bridge with a small stream that flowed gently underneath came in view with a path leading into town and to a clearing. Young walked over the bridge and into the clearing. In the clearing stood a large home. The house had eleven rooms in two floors. The outside was made out of wood while the basement was of stone. If one walked in, there would be a hallway with stairs leading up to the second floor and entryways into other rooms. The first floor contained seven rooms with windows in each and the second floor had five rooms. At the other end of the house was another set of stairs that lead up into the second floor as well. On the second floor, there is one set of stairs that lead up to the roof.
As Young walked up to the house, the man suddenly snuck up till he was right behind her and pressed a wet rag over young's nose and mouth while trying to pin her so she couldn't fight back. Young, while trying to fight off her attacker, found her reflexes and mind going sluggish till she fell into the black. The attacker picked up the woman's limp body and walked away from the scene all unnoticed to the house's occupants.