Ah yes don't ya just love the burn of your muscles after a nice v-ball tryout? I do… Guess what? I made GOLD! best team at my school HEHEHE… I'm still wearing my spandex shorts! sexy huh? Well this chapter has been bouncing around for a while I just haven't been able to get to the computer! Oh and if by any chance when you hear my town's name you think of a book… Well that's not my fault ok!
YOU MUST READ THIS: Thanks to one of my reviewers suggestions the Element formally known as Electricity is now being changed to Weather! great suggestion
Do you smell that?… It smells like chapter 1!
xoxoxo Chapter 1 xoxoxo The Black Raven
A sleek black raven flew above the busy streets of Ember. Masses of flaming red hair wove in and out of the clustered stalls lined up and down the street. The raven looked to be enjoying its self as it drifted lazily on the warm and heavily scented winds towards the colorful tents of the dancers.
As if released from a trance the raven shot into a dark ally way close to the tents. Some would have thought this strange, if they would have seen it that is. Moments later a tall dark red haired girl appeared from the ally. She was dressed as a dancer, with a flowing red top and many jingling scarves of the same color wrapped around her waist. She wore anklets, bracelets, and necklaces of the same fashion. Her feet were bare and she had a flaming red ruby in the middle of her forehead. Some would have thought it strange to see a girl as beautiful as she emerge from an ally way, if anyone would have seen that is.
She made her way swiftly towards the tents leaving only the jingling of her many trinkets behind. She approached the tent with confidence as a short frail looking girl dressed in orange came towards her.
"Acara! We all thought you were going to bail on us!" The girls name was Theo and she was her best friend in the whole wide world.
"Theo, you know I would never leave you guys on the final day of performance!" Acara was trying to sound appalled just as the rest of the girls swarmed around her in a mass of orange.
"Acara! You are going to use your fire magic for our performance right?" A girl with short and spiky red-violet hair spoke up.
"Well, I guess I will have to considering you would hang me by my toes until I said yes." She flashed a white toothy grin at her friends.
With that they made their way to the stage at the front of a gigantic crowd that had come to see their last performance of the season.
The sun was just starting to sink as they started their performance. Acara was in the middle of the group of dancers that started twisting and turning to the beat of the music. This was her favorite part of the dance, just before she started. The beat of the music pulsing through her veins as the fire lit in the middle of her palm. She opened her eyes slowly and then swiftly started the dance with the fire still blazing and shifting from palm to palm. With one graceful movement she sent up a ring of fire around the dancers. The coins on their belts and the jewels in their bellybuttons and foreheads blazed in the firelight. The dance went on. They twisted and turned, leaping and spinning in the ring of fire.
A sliver of the sun could be seen on the horizon as they ended the dance. The fire extinguished as the last beat of the music drifted into the air. The dancers were all sprawled on the ground in their final positions around Acara. Acara then took her place slowly in the center. Intertwined with her fellow dancers. She knew it would be the last time she ever danced here with her friends she savored the exhilarating rush of the crowds applause as they stood and bowed.
Inside the tent she announced her leave.
Theo was the first to speak, "Why Acara? Why?"
"My mother, she is sick with The Fever." There was a shocking gasp from her friends " I have to take care of her." She hated lying to her friends. "I have to take her to the cities to get medicine."
Her friends looked at her with sad eyes. They all said their good byes and departed to their homes. She sighed as Theo, the last one to leave, disappeared behind the tent flap.
She waited a few minutes to leave, and knowing that her friends were out of sight opened up the tent flap and made her way back to the market place. Her feet making a dull thud on the dusty paths as she made her way to the darkened ally way.
Once again a black raven was seen floating in the sky. But the raven wasn't enjoying its flight this time, if anyone had seen that is… The raven made its way up to the royal castle. The building looked imposing in the nearly diminished light. The drapes to an open window fluttered in the breeze as the black raven perched on the windowsill.
Necia made her transformation right there in the windowsill. She walked over to her dresser and pulled from it a formal white gown. Her father was having a guest tonight. They were to discuss her mission. The dress was made of the finest silk and had a corset style top. Diamonds and ruby accentuated the waist line. It had a sweetheart neckline with off the shoulder straps. The hem was garnished with more rubies and fell to the floor, hugging her curves all the way down.
It sure is nice to be in my own body... Necia walked over to her vanity table and sat down in front of the mirror. Even in the dim light her hair shone like the sunrise. Her hair was a mass of reds and golds. Her eyes were bluish purple in the middle and a gold on the outside. She had thick black eyelashes and perfectly arched brows. Her lips were dark pink and full.
She stared at herself for quite awhile. It wasn't that she was conceded. It was that she didn't want to forget who she was. Her worst fear was that one-day she would try to transform back into herself and find that she no longer knew who she was.
Someone knocked on the door. It startled her so she almost fell off her chair. She looked at the door, trying to decide if she wanted company.
"Come in.," she finally said.
Her father walked through the door. He was a big man with a reddish orange beard and hair. He could always be found with his cat, Primplepuss who was at the moment perched on his shoulder.
"Dinner is almost ready. You will find out the details about your mission then." He turned to leave. "Oh and sweetheart, I'm proud of you."
With that he left. Making her feel alone. Her own Kitten's name was Mr. Peanut. He would be coming with her. As if the mere thought of him was a calling he jumped up on her lap, being very careful of her dress. She scratched him behind the ears and then set him on her bed. It was time for dinner…
My loyal and ever faithful Reviewers!
Monkey-and-bananas76: Hey B I'm glad u like it:-)
Hoolihoopgrl131: Suggestion noted and am taking immediate action!
Aerinha: I love the new name! Still going through an identity crisis? LOL thanks for your input. PS My new improved Weather Element also includes the wind aka AIR:-)
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Metaphorical: Hello, glad ya liked it! Here is your drink:snicker:snicker: Wow this may seem very stereotypist of me but I've never heard of a guy on Fairy Tales in FF! I like it though, adds variety ya know a guys opinion! Guess I should have caught on when your name is Dino… So hi Dino, I'm Mary… sorry for thinking you were a gurl and all…. :-)