Destiny Revealed

The girl's blue-black locks hung all the way down to the small of her back and three haloes of blue flares of fire danced on top of her head, revolving like an atom. Her flesh was porcelain white and her white eyes appeared to hold the knowledge of a crone a thousand years old! She wore a white sheet that wrapped around her body. There was also a blue stone stuck in the middle of her forehead like an Indian woman. Also, if you looked at her from the corner of your eye, you could only see a shimmer of light.

A shriek hung in his throat and his bladder screamed to reveal its contents onto his pants. Then, unexpectedly, she laughed. It was a ethereal, hollow cackle with many other voices mingled in it. She then blew a bubble that froze Suke in place. Then as quickly as she started she stopped like she exaggerated on a lame joke. The laugh scared him more than the eyes. How is she holding me like this? And where did that bubble come from?

"It's a spell." she said in that mingled voice. What the...Oh yeah he thought she can read my mind.

"Who are you?"

"I am neither dead nor living. I am not anything, yet full of the infinite. I have seen what has been, is, and shall be..."

"Then... you are... the future?"

"I am Destiny." Ok she's a nut-job.

"It is you who has lost your sanity." Crap! I forgot she can read my mind again. Uhh. Stop thinking. Damnit!

"Ok whatever. Stop talking in riddles. What's going on? Why are you here? He said.

"I am here to help you find your destiny and obtain what you have lost."

"Then tell me!" After he said this, she looked at him for a second and her head slowly tilted to the left like a animal studying a predator determining whether to run or attack.

"You don't know do you?" he said.

"That's why I'm here. Ever since the accident, your future has become murky and opaque. Nothing I do can unscramble the unseen."

"Then what do you want me to do?"

After he said this, there was a loud scream that sounded as if someone died. His spine stiffened, and all of his joints popped... not too comfortable... and he fell to the ground, released from the spell. He looked up and saw a hint of fear in the girl/old woman/thing's face. She reached behind her back and dropped a leather (or what looked like leather) at his heels.

"I must go..." she said, rather quickly. Within his mind she continued, The items in the bag will help you. Choose one of your friends to help. The sphere and the circlet will reveal hidden powers. I must go... Meet me were the shadows become light and a mirror distorts reality. And with that she stepped into the shadows and disappeared.

That night, he sat staring at the bag. He could still hear her calling him a Shade Walker and telling him that his destiny blurred after the accident. He still remembered the day...

About eight months ago, he was walking on the street with his dad. They had went to the store to pick up some things and decided to walk home. They were just about to turn onto the corner that led deep into forest where his house was stationed upon a hill, when he collapsed to the ground and he fell unconscious. When he awoke, his dad and another guy where dead. Their faces were etched in horror and their bodies twisted into grotesque husks of their once non-dead selves. There was no blood or gashes or bullet holes. He could only remember that repulsive stench and those gnarled hands pointed directly at him...

He hated everything about that day. The unconsciousness, the death, and how the last thing he said to his dad was "Do you want shrimp or noodles for dinner?" Tears welled up in his eyes and he tilted his head back to let them run back behind his eyelids. The first thing that came to his mind was throwing the abominable things in the garbage and settling down on the couch with a cold, refreshing Coke in his hand.

Click. Tick. Click.

He threw himself on the ground as a huge boulder dropped straight through the roof with a earth-shaking whoosh and smashed right where he was standing. He rolled over and saw a thin creature with small wings attached to both sides of its head. But its head did not have any hint of eyes, ears, nose, or a mouth. It was only a odd appendage stuck on top of a bloated body with two flailing arms and jet stream, of who-knows-what, shooting out from under it to keep it aloft. He got up and scrambled to the table to grab the bag and ran out of his house. He was in the middle of the forest front yard when he tripped and fell into a tree trunk. He looked behind him to see the monster plop itself on the ground and commence to emit a ticking noise. He watched in horror as it cut itself down the middle and started to pull out its own guts! He realized then that its mission was to kill or die. As its innards fell out onto the ground, he looked inside of that cavernous chest and understanding donned on him for the first time since this whole ordeal started. He knew why the thing made a ticking noise...

((())))))Sakura((((())))

"You should have seen him. It was so cute. He got up and then..." She said as she talked away on her phone to one of her four sisters.

Sakura had a crush on Suke every since she saw him at age seven. They grew up together and she had always been there for him. She secretly took the same high school exams to get into the same school he was going. Of course, it wasn't easy. She had to hack into the school database and bribe a few counselors, but it was it worth it. Unlike other obsessed girls, she kept her cool and no one knew, outside of her family, that she liked him. Except Toya who was spying on her as she was finally going to tell Suke how she felt about him in junior high but decided against it when Suke told her he was having a tough time getting Murujan Yomijuon to go out with him. So she kept it to herself and decided never to confront him until the time was right. She also knew he was innocent in the murder of his father and wasn't scared to talk with him. After all, he always talked about his dad like he was king and hung on his dad's every word. She only stiffened when he stared at her. His eyes were the only thing that could frighten her. Dark blue pools that looked as if they could swallow her whole.

Sakura on the other hand had bright green eyes that changed to gold when it was humid or hot outside. She had dyed the front two tips of her long, blond hair pink. She knew it suited her glittery girlish attitude. She always smiled her perfect smile and laughed at everyone's jokes. She was always nice. But when it came Samanosuke Akuda, she became serious.

She just placed the phone on the hook when her mom yelled that she was going out. Partying probably. She thought. So she went into the bathroom, stripped down to her clothes and settled in the warm water she had running while she talked on the phone. She breathed slowly and rested her head on the rim. I deserve this.

For about ten minutes she sat. She opened her eyes and saw the silhouette of a man outside her window. Maybe its Suke. Maybe he's finally...naah. That can't be him. His shoulders are more broad and he is more built. The curve of his nose is more slanted and his ears are a little tapered at the end. She then stopped in mid-thought and screamed as the window sucked out and blew inward with a force so loud that all the glass in the house shattered. She couldn't hear herself scream over the cacophony of explosions. She tried to cover up her chest as she ran down the hallway naked. She cowered in a corner with a bat she held against he bare skin.

The man slowly walked past the doorway. The man she saw wasn't a man at all! It's body was clear with a glowing talisman on its forehead. Oh my gawd! I'm going to die! I am going to die a naked virgin and at the age of 17! What a horrible end... As if hearing her thoughts. The thing jumped into the room and glided across the wooden floor. Each one curled and turned green with mildew as it passed. She shook violently as the thing reached down and grabbed her neck, choking life out of her. She kicked at its rock hard stomach, possibly even injuring her foot. Her brain flashed and an array of colors burst into view as a hard hand rammed into her stomach. She could hear the thing gurgling as if laughing at her pathetic excuse for a struggle. It leaned in and started to breathe in her very soul. As it did it took on a feeble emulation of her. It formed eyes ears and blonde hair sprouted from its head. It even had the long pink bangs that hung over her forehead. The last thing she saw before everything went blank was the outline of another beast standing outside her window looking at her perish in the hands of a ghoul...