Hi, Zavier here. Just to let you guys know, when the name Ran is mentioned, it's not referring to everyone's favorite lizard monster! Sorry! Oh, and there's a little hint of foreshadowing here!
In the crowd, sweat poured and bodies danced. The feverish pitch of the music was deafening in
the enclosed space and the crowd was moshing and crowd surfing and others were just content to
head bang and jump around. Onstage, Freddy was screaming and swearing and dancing and
walking back and forth across the stage, taunting the crowd. Blacky shook his fur out of his eyes
and roared into a microphone, spreading the webbed membranes stretching from his upper arms
wide. His slap-bass was loud and made a crunchy sort of percussion sound that not quite blended
with Guppie's drumming. They had already done a song, called All Alone. They were about to
start on one Freddy liked to call Birth of a Goddess, depicting the old legends from the Viking
days about a sea goddess who would someday come and reclaim the oceans once again.
Backstage, the sound crew was watching the equipment and making sure no irate fans came
backstage and messed with anything.
The band continued to play in this manner for the next hour and a half or so, then began the
song that would close the show for the night.
Meanwhile…
Unbeknownst to the band and all the fans, there was a sea goddess. Her name was Ranekaera, or
Ran for short. She had come from a background of abuse and neglect, torment and grief, for she
had lost her family long ago. She's been shipped from placement to placement after that, her
powers growing stronger, for the past fifteen years. She had stopped aging at sixteen and she
would not grow any older. (I'll explain all this in the next few chapters, don't get confused).
She had finally escaped her uncle's house in the neighboring town, just half a mile away.
She was tired, underfed, and much too thin and she was also severely cold. She resembled
Freddy in some aspects, except that she was a pure snow white color, with skin as slippery as a
seals, but softer, like valor. She had torn, jagged looking wings that a human might compare to a
fairy's. Her tail ended in a large-ish fin like a whale's or a mermaid's and she had a pouch on her
belly like a kangaroo's.
And she was extraordinarily beautiful, with dark red hair and odd eyes.
She wandered into the parking lot of the civic center and saw the large, lit-up tour bus and made
her way towards it. The icy wind tore at her hair and the very thin t-shirt she wore. She knew
where she was but she didn't know what she was going to do. Now, considering all she had seen
and been through, she knew a lot that other 16 year olds didn't. Like the world never understood
what you were trying to tell them and when they finally did, they were either horrified and tried
to stop it, or they didn't know what to say.
"I'm so cold." She whimpered. Her voice was very deep for a female's.
The tour bus was painted a dark green with slashes of black everywhere. On the side, the words
Destroyers had been slashed across in bright red paint. She was from the human world, but she
had heard of the Destroyers. That was just a mark of how popular they were.
It started to rain, which made Ran a little happier, but didn't help much.
She felt the snow coming and she let it snow, not caring that she controlled it and could stop it if
she so desired. She was too cold to care. Even though she was a mammal, she was freezing to
death.
She collapsed, unconscious, in front of the doors.
Meanwhile…
"Hey, Freddy! C'mon, let's go!" shouted Guppie. The tour manager, Mike, a demon monster
with a human-like appearance, yelled. The crowd was already leaving and if they weren't, the
security guards were kicking them out. The Destroyers were hard to get a hold of or book for a
show, so people stayed at the end of a concert. Freddy was helping the sound crew load up
Guppie's drum kit and Guppie was helping the twins lug all the speaker equipment back into the
truck that was backed up to the emergency doors backstage. The rest of the sound crew was
helping out too. The room was almost emptied out and the security guards watched and chatted
amongst themselves as the band talked. All they wanted was to get back on the bus and party
after a show well done.
They were about to get more.
What's about to happen next? I'll explain all about Ranekaera, for whom the story is named, so don't worry! If you haven't noticed, this isn't even a fan fic, it's a book I wrote and made up everything for myself. Please review, I love reviews! Everything will make sense soon after she wakes up…in the next two chapters