Sy: Okay, so I promised updates for Wednesday, but stuff happened and here we are. Anyway, the teachers here are on strike so the updates will be rolling in.
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Key to my Heart
008: Magical or Something
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Key was sitting on her cot. The tent was empty for once and she was taking this time to go through her backpack. She pulled out a tattered, old, black notebook and started flipping through it. A piece of old parchment fell out from one of the pages. She blinked and picked it up. It wasn't her writing and it certainly wasn't anyone she knew's writing...
One girl
Alone
Can change
Alone
A cut
Blood
A change
Majestic
To save the past
Alone
Key blinked again. Whatever this was she had never seen it before. She wondered for a moment before looking over the words again. A cut? She looked down at her bandaged wrist. Could that girl... Be her? Katherine Shinero? Alone? Yeah... It could be. Key was alone, forever. What could trigger the change though? It said 'A cut, Blood.' She looked down at her wrist again and unwrapped it. Instead of the deep gash that was supposed to be there, there was a scar in the shape of a star. She ran her finger over it and a drop of blood came out at the centre. The scar absorbed the blood and began to glow.
Key gasped and looked around. She grabbed the bandage, wrapped it quickly around herwrist and ran out of the tent and into the desert. As soon as she was a safe distance from the camp she unwrapped it again and watched as the glow grew and engulphed her entire body. She must have blacked out because the next thing she remembered was standing up of the ground and looking down and seeing... Someone who was definetly not her.
She was dressed in an ankle length metallic blue skirt that had a swirl design with stars embrodered into it. She had a white, backless top the wrapped around her neck and was held in place by a yellow sash. The top had detatched arms that started a few inches down her arm. They were like a traditional kimono sleeves, white that faded into pink near the bottom. On her feet were black boots. Her normally long black hair was now a brown color and went only a little way past her shoulder.
Key blinked as she looked down at herself. Too weird... She shook her head. She really needed to talk to someone. She looked back towards camp and saw someone walking towards her. They must have seen the bright light.
"Crap," she muttered and began looking around for an escape. It was either wait here and be found or jump into a hole and be stuck there for eternity. She looked towards the person again. With great relief she saw that it was Magnet.
Magnet came closer and looked right at her. He stopped. "Key?"
"Um... Yes."
"Wow..."
"Um... Thank you?"
"What happened?"
"Well you know the cut I had? Well it turned into this weird star shaped scar thing and I poked it and it bled a little but then it kind of absorbed it and then it started to glow and then I ran out here and then I started to glow and then Ipassed out and when I woke up I looked like this and-"
"Key, you're rambling."
"Oh. Sorry."
"So... You're like... Magical or something."
Key shrugged and handed Magnet the parchment that she had, odd enough, brought with her. He read it over and turned to her.
"Sounds like a prophecy or something."
"Okay that's great. How am I supposed to 'save the past?'" she asked, groaning.
"I'm sure it'll come to you," Magnet shrugged.
Key sighed and sat down in the dirt. "This sucks."
"Not for long," a cold voice drawled.
Key scrambled up as Magnet whipped around.
"Warden," they said together, Key glaring.
"I knew I was right about you. I knew you were that girl in the prophecy. It all fits, and now you can help me," the Wardne smirked.
"Why should I help you?" Key demanded.
"You can go back to normal. Live an ordinary life. I'll even let you leave camp," the Warden responded.
Key paused. "Never!"
The Warden scowled. "Well then I'm afraid it has to come to this!"
The Warden launched herself at Key, grabbing her and pulling her back to where her car stood, several feet away. key struggled andstruggled but the Warden's grip never loosened. Key was thrown into the back of the car and the Warden climbed in and drove off into the distance of the lake.
Magnet was frozen for a moment before bolting in the direction of the camp. He ran into the tent where he knew everyone would be.
"Magnet! Man! What was the li-" X-Ray started to ask.
"The Warden's got Key!" Magnet said, gasping for breath.
"WHAT!"
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The Warden threw Key to the ground and Key scrambeled up. She heard a click and turned to the Warden who was holding a gun at her. Key gulped and looked around. There was an upturned boat, probably ancient. Everything else was simply desert.
"Do whatever it is you do," the Warden commanded.
"But I don't-"
"DO IT!"
Key blinked as tears started to fill her eyes. She didn't know what to do. She turned around and faced the boat. She guessed that's why the Warden had brought her here.
"Tasukete," she whimpered. (Help)
Something started materilising in front of the boat. Key gasped an took a step back. It turned into a person from a long time ago by her appearance.
"Donata desu ka?" (Who are you)
'That is unimportant. I have to help you. I'm a ghost. The Warden wants you to bring me back to life, that's your power. To make me live say Ikimasu, to make me disappear say Shinimasu. Understand?'
Key nodded. "Hai." (Yes.)
"Well, brat?" the Warden hissed from behind her.
"I-Iki... Shinimasu!" Key cried.
The ghost nodded her thanks and disappeared.
"What did you do? That's not right!" the Warden cried.
Key shrugged.
The Warden glared and fired her gun. Key shuddered as it pierced her arm. She flew up into the air and stayed there for awhile before glowing, turning back to normal and falling to the ground.
The Warden laughed evilly and drove back to camp.
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Meanwhile D-Tent had been plotting something. When they saw the Warden's car drive up they nodded siletnyl to one another and ran out to the desert. They stopped by one the holes far out.
"Key wasn't in the car. That means the Warden left her out in the desert. We gotta find her," X-Ray said.
"Agreed. I say we follow the road until we find her, or se something in the distance that could be her," Magnet said.
As D-Tent continud theirr plan they didn't notice Zero had already began running out in the direction the Warden's car had come from.
'Don't die Key...' he thought, looking up at the sun.
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Sy: Woah. Intense. And don't worry no one will die. Well, maybe the Warden but even that is doubtful. Anyway, there's a new updating schedule in my profile if you want to look at it. Key is updated every Monday/Tuesday for the month of October. It'll robably stay like that until it's finished. Which should be... Oh... 3 or 4 chapters.
Squid/Key/Zero: Yeah!
Sy: And then Friends gets to startbeing redone!
Squid/Key/Zero: Ye- Aw...
Sy: Hey! Stop that.
Squid: How many stories are in the series?
Sy: Um... Well there's Key, Friends, Broken, Break, No Such Thing and one that is currently untitled.
Key: Holy crap. And I'm in all of them?
Sy: Yup. Except in the last one you're not the main focus anymore.
Key: Oh joy.