The Banished One
By: Jay Whitefox
Prologue
The sky over head changed with flashes from yellow to green to pink then back to yellow. The world below it forever covered in a white of an eternal winter. Towering trees white a bone rose up towards the changing sky. Across these white wastes and figure can be seen moving slowly leaning on a long wooden staff darkened from some stain on it. The figure was an old man long Grey hair fell down his back his skin darkened from the eternal sun of this place. While old his body had a look of power to it as he must have had in his youth. The rags that hung from him looked to once of been silk their color all but gone save for the red of the shirt and dark black of his pants. The sleeves and legs ripped into ribbons of cloth as they dangle. His eyes a stormy blue-Grey as they look out on some point only he could see.
Suddenly the old man seems to flicker and now in his place is Young girl with fiery red hair and well formed body most models would envy. But the eyes remain the same as the girls keep moving her stride picking up speed where before he body ached with age now youth gave fleetness to her feet.
The girl's form flickers once again an now a child of 5 or 6 years marches on his black hair hanging down around him as his hand moves by reflex to tighten the rope holding up his pants. He moves with the grace of a cat bounding along an unseen path the staff used to vault himself forward more then he could have walked.
Then a sound cries out over the wastes an the boy stops an moves into a ready stance as bounding across the ice an snow come the hounds of those who hunted him. Great beast who looked a mix between bear and wolf white as the snow save for their claws and fangs blacked a stained from dried blood. The young boy flickers an in his place is an old woman who looks at the beasts. Her grey hair streaked with strands of red as she holds her staff ready.
The first of the hunters leap at her an she smirks her Grey blue eyes sparkle as she turns away from the claws the tip of the staff glowing a blazing red an cutting through the beast letting the two parts land off to the sides of her as she turns to the other hound and smirks as her fingers curl an she swipes her hand an the beast is cut into three parts.
She then starts moving once more towards a place only she could feel. An escape from this land where time held no sway. Where she had been banished long ago, or had it only been a few day, moments? She no longer knew or cared. She had lost much of herself here in the wastes. She had gone into her mind to find the will and power to live on and come out the other side lighter and stronger but lost so much. She no longer knew if she was male or female, young or old, Human or a cat. She only knew she must be the best. Her skills had not failed her once and she knew they had a name but could not remember.
She flickers and now a young man his long black hair wild rushes towards the unseen goal. Then he heard them the horns of the hunters. He growls as his eyes turn Grey as of a thunderstorm as he moves faster closer to his goal then he had been ever before. He would escape and have his vengeance on the one who banished him to this place. He then see it a waver in the air a hole in the very being of this world. He rushes as the hunter's horns sound again this time closer. His form flickering from male to female, young to old. Her pants fall to the snow behind him as she now longer tries to keep them on, only escape mattered now to him. The being form flickering faster now with only their eyes remaining the same as the sounds of the hunter's steeds can be heard an the being leaps into the portal an feels the wash of the world twisting an turning around them as they are shot out the other end to land at the feet of...
AN: Yeah a cliffhanger i know. I want to hear some ideas on where the Banished Ones ends up. I've already got a place in mind but i want to here what some of you might think. An should they come out a adult,a teen or as a kid. and Male or Female. R&R people if you want me to keep this story going.
Oh and I so don't own any of the people in this story or the worlds they may go to save for the few i come up on my own so don't sue me as i'm poor.