Eternal Silence

ch.1 The Bell

A low rumble in the sky then a boom as rain began to pour down, soaking the roads and people foolish enough to be outside. A young girl raced through the rain while holding a throughly soaked newspaper above her head, her short brown hairdancing lazily against the wind and she stopped for a moment to catch her breath. Her spring green eyes sparkled as the drops lessened and she bagan running again, clutching her brown trench coat to her body so is not to lose the precious burden inside the bag hidden in her jacket. Finally reaching a her house she tore open the door and shook off the rain.

"Sorry, dad the line at the store was long!", the girl shouted as she took off her jacket andtossedit ontothe woodenchair by the door. Her red, long sleeveshirt and blue short skirt remained dry.

"It's alright, I just wish you would've brought an umbrella.", said her father walked into the hallway, drying a dish. He wore a bage shirt with jeans and a white apron, his hair a dark brown andbrown eyes shined from unders his glasses.

"I know I'm sorry, I just didn't think it would rain...it had looked so nice earlier," the girl said while shaking her head. The man nodded then walked back into the kitchen, leaving her to put take her shoes off.

"Sakura, I want you to go relax now. You'll wear yourself out and you won't be able to help around the house anymore," her dad shouted teasingly from the kitchen.

Sakura sighed and picked up the plastic bag, she turned towards the basement and headed downstairs.

She flopped down onto her large bed and dropped the bag onto a dresser next to it, a small necklace rolled out of it. The necklace was silver colored except the main peice wich was tinted blue bell. Rika picked it up and placed it in her palm, the strange object had been a gift from the lady on the street.

"Maybe it'sgot abad ring or something, yeh that would just be my luck. I get a free gift and it sounds bad,"she said then rolled onto her side closing her eyes. she drifted off slowely, the weight of exaustion was something not easily ignored. When she opened her eyes she was in a strange place filled with rainbows, ponies and unicorns. The medow was filled with pretty pink flowers and everyone was happy.

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Sakurasat in her kitchen crunching on frosted flakes, her eyes were more baggy then when she had gone to sleep. whoever heard of acutelittle dream keeping you awake all night?

"Would've been better if nightmares kept me awake," she muttered then slurped down her milk.

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Sakurasat in a chair rolling the necklace around in her hand, her thoughts were running around aimlessly and driving her nuts.

"maybe it's cursed..." she said as she flung it over onto the bed.

She stood up and stretched, then plopped herself onto her bed. She picked up the necklace and rolled it under the bed, the bell chimed silently as it rolled under. The bell still almost seemed to be present because Sakura couldn't stop thinking about it. Finally she gave up and reached to grab it, but it rolled away from her finger tips. She climbed off the bed reaching under, the bell began to glow and Sakura's eyes widened as it began to suck her into a strange whirlpool.

"What the!", She gasped and wasswallowed into the portal. She opened her eyes and was surrounded by little stars, everything else was dark blue and was like looking at the night sky.

"Am I dead?" she asked herself silently. Then suddenly the stars began to fly upwards and she felt gravity return as she fell downwards, Sakura reached up and grabbed onto a small star. It burn for a moment and she released it as she fell into the dark blue abyss, the darkness swallowed her as she tried to find someting to grab onto. Flustered at the fact that there was probably a bottom and it wasn't going to be a fun landing.

The bell chimed from somewhere and it echoed as she stopped falling, the ground seemed to fly upwards and stop just benieth her. She was released from gravity's grip and landed on the ground, pine and spruce trees began to spring up out of nowhere and the ground was soon covered in a layer of grass. Mountains appeared in the distance, she was in a deep forest and the sun began to rise while birds chirped from unknown areas.

"Am I in heavan," She whispered to herself and stood on shaken legs. There was the sound of walking nearby so Sakura walked towards it, the forest was thick and she was scratched and cut by many tree branches and twigs. There was a small path in the distance and she heard carts groan as they carried much weight, she burst into the clearing only to be stared at by strange little blue imps.

The imps had long pointed ears and were only as tall as her waist, they had raggidy looking scraps of cloth on. They were surrounded by large crates and horses with carages attached to thier harnesses. Many of them looked shocked and dropped whatever they were carrying to stare at her, Sakura felt uneasy and began to back up. One of the Imps ran up to her and pulled her forward by her skirt.

"Are you a demon?" asked the imp as it stared at her.

Sakura shook her head and pulled her skirt from the imps hand.

"I'm a human," she said, with a quizzical look.

All the imps gasped and huddled together as she stepped forward.

"She is worse than a demon, she has come to help the Silencer with the darkness," Screached the main imp and they grabbed as much of thier things as they could and took off down the path. Some of the crates were left behind and dust settled behind them.

"What was that all about..." Sakura muttered. Suddenly she heard the bell ring again and a large blue bird flew over head. It held a sparkling object in it's beak and it released it just above Sakura. She managed to catch it and it was the bell, the bird had carried it to her.

"Why do I get the feeling this thing is a curse," She grumbled as she started down the opposite end of the path the imps took.

"Maybe someone down this path will help me.."

To be continued...