13 November, 2005 7:20:51 PM

Darkening World

A Fanfiction Tale in Far Future Era

Chapter One:Get the Girl

A dark haired girl sat on the floor of her empty room, a bed with just a sheet for cover. The cool air blew into the room through the window, the girl held the blanket she had wrapped around her tighter. Paint peeled from the walls. "Mother isn't coming home is she, Dany?"The girl asked the black and white cat that had just slinked in through the ajar door.

Dany brushed up against her master, and the girl petted the top of the cat's head. "Just what I thought..."The girl sighed. She stood up and opened the door the rest of way, the hinges creaking from age. She stuck her head out, to check to make sure the coast was clear, her green eyes sweeping around the old musty hall. Just as she had expected nothing but emptyness filled the rooms, and shadows loomed darkly on the walls.

She stepped out quietly, the floor boards creaking in screams. When she reached where the staircase should have been, the hall door was ajar. She opened it, and door did not creak, in fact the staircase leading from the door was clean, and regal. The steps did not creak as she stepped down them. Dany stood mewing from the top.

I wouldn't go down there if I was you, the cat told her. The girl told it to shush as she had reached the bottom. Voices could be heard from the next room, pleading voices, and angry voices. Something in latin was screamed, and a green flash came from under the door. The girl stepped back, not sure what to do.

"Forget the dog, Abrass! Find the girl. The woman's dead. We need the child's blood..."One voice, a woman's, said, well hissed in the room.

"Why couldn't we just use his blood anyways, Noelle?"A man, Abrass the girl asumed, asked the womans. The girl heard Noelle whisper something to Abrass, before the door knob turned. Scared for her life she ran towards the back of the house, the floor boards creaking in agony, as she grapsed the knob of the back door, Dany was hot on her heels.

After a momment of struggleing with the door, she wrenched it open, and dashed down the steps. She reached the vegtable garden in one sharp turn. The voices of Noelle, and Abrass could be heard not too far behind. Dany hissed, and sputtered as Abrass came around to the side of the house.

"Catching two birds with one stone, eh? The blood, and a kitty..."He said advancing, a smooth, polished wooden stick in his hand. His mangey hair glisened in sweat. "Come here little girl..."He coaxed, as she stepped backwards, she let her blanket finally drop to the ground. Abrass held up his stick and pointed it at her. She screamed, and ran for the forest cover. She could hear Abrass swere as her skin was scratched by the tree branches.

What in the name of the King are we going to do now? Dany asked her as they slowed down, the girl panting from running. The girl reatched by a tree, whiping her face on her jumper as she pulled it up over her head. She looked at her surroundings as she sat on a mossy boulder.

"I don't know..."She said breathlessly. The stick holding pair would find her soon, and who knows what would happen to her then. "But what would they want with me? I'm just an average girl. Nothing special..." Dany brushed up against her leg. The girl closed her eyes, hopeing that when she opened them she would be in her old room, a maid opening the blinds to let the sun in. Then she could go down to the kitchen, have her breakfast fixed by Marie the cook, and her mother would be sitting at the table, with father laughing...

But that would never be true. She opened her eyes, a single tear falling down her cheek. Things had never been the same since father came back. He had left for a month, on a business trip, and when he had come home...well he was different. After a few weeks he began to abuse mother, and that morning she had gone down stairs, where father stayed, and had not come back.

Marie the cook had quit when she claimed that father had tried to get her into bed. All the maids had either been fired, or had quit. But one maid, Lassy had sworn she would return once father had left. The girl fought with herself to not admit that she was afraid, or sad. She jumped up when she heard a twig snap in the forest. The forest had legends told about it by the village chlidren...

It hit her, she gasped in shock. She could go to the village. The cops there could do something about those crazy people. Then another thought hit her... she couldn't go to the village. She was lost in the forest, she didn't even know which way the sun had gone down, the forest was darkening. Tonight was the waxing quarter moon. The full moon would be in about a week.

"We're not going to make it out of here alive, are we Dany?"She said turning to where she expected the cat to be, Dany was nowhere to be seen. "Dany!" She started to yell, before she realized that yelling would give away her postion in the forest. She started walking where she geussed west would be. When the forest was as dark as the night sky, a chill swept over the wood. She hugged herself for warmth, with just her jeans, trainers, and her tank-top on she wished she hadn't left the jumper on the boulder.

She leaned on a tree, silently cursing her earlier wish for a cold summer. Although it was mid-july she could see her breath in the cold air in front of her. She attemped to see the sides of her nose, just to have her eyes ache, and her stomach growl for food she had not eaten since the piece of toast she had had that morning.

"What am I suppose to do now?"She breathed, sliping down to the ground, her teeth chattering. In this wheather she was sure to frezze to death, she already felt unconsisness comeing near. Blackness covered her view, she tightly shut her eyes and tried to picture the sun, or an oven... something warm. As she sliped into unconsisness, she heard a gun shot fired in the distance, dogs barking, glass windows being broken, screams, and sirens blareing.

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"What do you mean she excaped!"Artemis yelled at his two most trusted followers.

"She just..."Abrass started trying to find a good way to tell his master that he had failed dearly.

"She disappeared, like a ghost."Noelle covered for her brother. Apolla, Artemis's mistress scoffed.

"Well you two will have to find her, and bring her to me...ALIVE!"He yelled, he knew that if he didn't tell them that she needed to be alive for the blood to be spilt correctly, he was glad that he had thought to kidnap the girl before the full moon was to rise.

"Yes master..."The two in usion, leaving the chamber when Artemis waved them away.

"Why do you that girl specificly?"Apolla asked Artemis, he sighed his followers had asked him the same question repeatedly, "There are so many other young girls out there, and they have plenty of blood..."

"The blood that needs to be spilt is of that girl's ansestors, dating back to the end of the last centrey before the war..."He told her she winced.

"Not the Harry Potter legend again, Artemis..."She pleaded. Ever so many times had Artemis told the fictonal tale of 'Harry Potter' and how that boy had defeated some 'Dark Lord'. Everyone knew the tale, even a few muggle children.

"Its not fictonal, Apolla!"He screamed at her. She stepped backwards.

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A/N:Well? Do you know who the girl is? Do you know what they want her for? Do you know what I just said?