Hey! Yeah so I really, really suck at this updating thing (blame all my new dvds) but once school starts back up (and I don't have time to watch dvds) I think I'll be able to get back into the writing spirit (but I said that about the holidays). Now I've got it planned out and picked a song for each chapter already (the songs are my inspiration), I want to get to ten chapters but we'll see how I go!
Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed and continued to review after my month's in-between updates. I added two new POV's this chapter not sure who the Unknown is yet but I have an idea.
This chapter is dedicated to my best friend Amanda (buffy vs angel), I will explain why at the end, but I'm sure she'll get it! (It involves potato & gravy, gravity and a hard concrete floor).
Chapter 4: Realisations and AnswersYou always reached out to me and helped me believe
All those memories we share
I will cherish every one of them
The truth of it is there's a right way to live
And you showed me how
So now you live on….
-Stand Here With Me, Creed
Chris' POV"She's alive!" Even when I say it out loud I can hardly believe it. All this time I'd been moping around feeling sorry for myself while she's out there some where, alone and terrified. But no more, all I feel now is an overwhelming determination to find her, to set things right.
I get redressed and quickly tiptoe out of the room, careful not to wake Wyatt, he'd want to help and this is something I want to do on my own.
Once out of Wyatt's ear reach I orb up to the attic. As soon as the lights from my orbs fade I'm left in nearly total darkness, the only illumination coming from the pale moon shining though the dusty window frame. After reaching for the light switch I quickly begin my work.
You see I have an idea, it isn't much of one but it's all I have and at this point I'm willing to try anything. The previous morning I was in the attic trying to help Aunt Paige with a spell. I'd have to admit it wasn't the cleverest spell but nether was the act, so the balance was pretty even. She was trying to cross a lost and found spell with a fix it one after destroying her daughters favourite teddy in an over fierce attempt to wash it. Then when the head was somehow removed from the body, in a mad rage stuffing and all was orbed to god knows where and now Annie keeps asking for her bear! Good old Aunt Paige always finds away around these things and simply gets Annie excited about going to Magic School, to bad its not going to last- she loved that bear.
So I'm planning on using that very same spell to help me find Libby. Obviously the spell was a flunk in finding the toy, Aunt Paige just wound up in some factory in the middle of China, but three guesses for what the factory made! Yep, stuffed animals! I'm hoping the spell will work the same way for me, and I just happen to use to have a clay…well, umm… a clay something that Libby made me years ago. Yeah got the spell!
Well, wow, I guess I was giving it too much credit earlier, Aunt Phoebes right, working under pressure sucks! Or at least something does…but I can still work with this, I'll just take out the fix it part…. there! Here goes nothing! –Not literately I hope.
"Man I screwed up really bad,
So help me out and I'll be glad.
I lost something I need back,
Something loved that I can't track.
So please I ask to bring to me,
What I just can't seem to see!"
Bright yellow orbs of light circle around me, engulfing me, until I vanish into the night.
Wyatt's POV
Not in the attic, not in the bathroom, oh the basement! ..…Sigh, nope not in the basement. You know I'm really beginning to hate days like this, I wake up to find no sign of my little brother, once again, I told mum we should' a got him a beeper! Oh well she only has herself to blame- and me.
"Wyatt! Did you find him?" my anxious mother storms me as soon as I enter the room.
"No, but mu…" She cuts me off and starts shouting up the stairs.
"Chris! Chris, get down here right now!"
"Ah I think we've already established that he's not I the house." –opps.
"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, don't you get smart with me, you were suppose to be keeping an eye on him!"
"Well I'm sorry but some of us actually do need to sleep." She glares at me with one of her 'if looks could kill' stares.
"LEO! Sigh, wow I've been doing a lot of that lately. I know she's not really blaming me, she's just scared, and so am I.
"I'm gonna check a few other places," I guess I could just walk round town until I spot him; anything is better than sticking round here. She gives me a nod of approval and I head out in search of my brother. Again.
Chris' POV"Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty."
"What are you doing?"
"Counting- thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three."
"Counting what?"
"All the stars, thirty-four, thirty-five."
"But we're underground."
"Thirty-six…. we are?"
"Yep."
"Then what am I doing?"
"Talking to yourself."
"That can't be healthy."
"Nope."
"Maybe I should stop."
"Maybe."
"Ok, I will… Why are we underground?"
"I thought you were going to stop."
"I was but…"
"Then stop!"
"Fine, I'll just go ask the giant floating purple sheep!"
"Oh for gods sake, wake up!" drip, drip, drip.
"Huh?"
"Wake up!" drip, drip, drip.
I hear the soft sound of water on rock; I feel the same rugged surface underneath my palm. I open my eyes to see a dull puddle a little way from my hand. That's not right! I feel like I've just woken up from bed, but nothings how it should be. Suddenly it all clicks into place and I remember the spell. The orbs must have just dropped me, on the hard, sharp, rocky ground, wonderful. I slowly sit up, the side of my head aches and there's something in my mouth. Oh hell, that's my tooth! I broke my tooth! White splodges dance in front of my eyes and I get a sudden urge to count them…six?…nine?… but it passes. I lift my hand to my eye only to discover an impressive lump, along with a small cut, lightly bleeding. Although it doesn't hurt too much I figure I should wait until I can see straight before I get up so the experience doesn't get an encore. Sitting still is starting to make me go stir crazy but some deep breathes to keep me calm and I should be as good as new. With a quick spell to help, I mean come on, my tooth is broken, that's not personal gain, it's my tooth's life on the line here!
A few minutes later my tooth is firmly back in place thanks to a basic fix it spell, and I'm on my way down a rocky cave, lit every now and then by the pale glow of a torch. Unfortunately I still have a slight headache and the lump, no one said the spell was perfect!
One hour later: I must be getting closer, Aunt Paige landed right in the middle of the creator of the teddy bear, so the creator of my clay thingy has to be close! I know I'm right, just around the next corner.
Two hours later: Ok so maybe I was wrong.
Three hours later: Maybe really, really wrong. Just ten more minutes, then I'll go home and try again.
Ten minutes lat…. "Crab pee-ple, crab pee-ple, crab pee-ple." Ok that's new…do I even want to know? Hell yeah!
Turning down the tunnel the cave widens out into a… larger cave. But this one's filled with hundreds of little chanting creatures that can only be described as, well crab people. After deciding they're not a threat, but still not wanting to mess with them I orb pass them and continue on my way with a new hope that if there's life here there's likely to be more.
Unknown POVAlone figure is startled awake by an unnerving sight, their breathing is ragged and droplets of sweat cover their forehead, as they try to convince themself it was only an nightmare, that they are save in their bed and will soon see the world though with another day. But as the sleep is pushed from their still tired eyes realization soon hits full force as they know that yes, what they saw has not come to pass, but they also know that it's only a matter of time before it does.
Wyatt's POVI hate walking.
Chris' POV"An outsider walks among us!" an extremely ugly green demon shouts.
"He isn't welcome in our world!" an extremely ugly yellow demon yells.
"Patience, he will be dealt with." A not so ugly demon in a black cloak calms the growing crowds. Man I hope they're not talking about me! A little while after the crab people I stumbled across what seems to be a demon meeting, thousands of them gathering around the supposed leader in the black cloak.
"What if he's too powerful?" the green demon demands.
"We have our secret weapon, he will never see it coming."
"But it's not ready, it's too soon."
"No, the timing couldn't have been more perfect," the leader confidently states. Ok now I'm getting a little nervous, what the hell is going on? I decided to move from behind the rock currently concealing me, to get a better look at what I'm up against. Or not- I quickly crouch back down. The cave seems to be a lot bigger than I originally thought. A lot bigger. Just as I'm thinking maybe I should rethink my plan the leader removes his hood. My world crumbles around me, no it can't be! But it is, Yekom.
I should be rushing out to kill him. A knife in hand, slashing away fiercely at him. I should make him pay, make him beg for death, and if it wasn't for the thousands of demons that surround him I…. still wouldn't. It's not that I fear him, or maybe I do, I have every right to. He caused me so much pain, ruined my life, destroyed the lives of four people I hold dear and took another away and all for what? Some revenge scheme? Some twisted, sick, little game? Well guess what Yekom, this games not over and you're not going to win.
Wanting to blend in I glamour into some horrid looking creature and start making my way through the thick crowds. I don't really have a plan of action, but for the moment I'm keeping my ears open for any helpful hints of what's to come. Thats when I see her. My heart suddenly starts pounding hard in my chest, my hands are shaking like crazy, legs feeling wobbly making it difficult to stand. I can't believe it, its true, after all this time... I found her.
Libby's POVI climb slowly out of bed ready to face another day of hell. I'm not talking about your average day of high school kind of hell; I'm talking about the fiery kind. No I'm not dead- well not literately but to everyone I care about I am. It's a long story that I'm not in the mood to tell, nor do I have the time, there's a real harsh punishment for tardiness here and I dare not test it's limits.
Ten minutes later I'm standing in the great hall over looking the largest city in the underground. Skyscrapers tower up from every ground space possible, sitting barely fifty centre meters apart, each of them a nasty shade of grey, blending in perfectly with the surrounding atmosphere. For today is not like every other day, today I am to start taking part in the jobs of my future trade. Yeah, I know what you're thinking: 'how could a trade possibly be a hell?'well this trade can get pretty messy and I'm likely to make a lot of enemies, and the fact that the city doesn't host the nicest of locals, who all seem to have a worrying grudge against my home doesn't help. That and I'll be given unthinkable power that will most likely corrupt me and make me forget all about my loved ones back home. But no, I think I'm being a bit hasty with my words, there is a bright side to all of this: at least I won't feel any guilt when my family and friends scream there last words as they're bloody bodies fall to the feet of their merciless killer… Me.
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Well that's chapter 4! The parts with the Unknown and Libby came from my random story, which is made up of different paragraphs that have no real connection so I'm glad I got the chance to put some of them to use. I guess it's pretty clear what the trade is and if not, you'll find out so enough! So bear with me, ask me anything you don't understand and I'll clear some more things up next chapter- which will take me awhile cause I only have a small idea about what to write for the next two chapters. Maybe they should go demon hunting, that's always fun!
This chapter is dedicated to Amanda for being a great friend when I had my little accident! When Chris woke up after being knock out, everything he felt and did was the same when a similar incident happened to me.
I was at KFC sitting on one of those really high stools and I had a spoonful of potato and gravy, it was so hot I swallowed it immediately where it went on to burn me the whole way down and eventually knocked me out. I woke up feeling like I'd just had a dream, I heard sound (voices), then feeling (palm on the cold ground), then sight (the water), for a few seconds I couldn't work out where I was then I saw Manda! She helped me up (that's when I felt my tooth!) I sat in a chair with ice on my head and Manda holding my hand until the ambulance got there (then she went with me). Once the spots left I wouldn't shut up about my tooth! It took a few weeks for my eye to go down and return to normal colour (just a little scar now) but oh my tooth was just capped! Its ok! (I kept the chip)! And all these wonderful events took place on none other than my sixteenth birthday! Still a good day! Thanks to Manda! (Who even held my tooth for me). You're the greatest!
To everyone else I'll love (really, really love) you to review!
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