Soul Society 4:
I could have sworn my eye sight was bleeding because it was like looking at the world through a red glass. Everything became so acute and my senses were multiple times sensitive. I knew I lost gravity because I didn't feel anything solid on any parts of my body. I never knew that all through my life, there was always something solid pushing against me. Now that it was gone, I felt feeble in the air surrounding me.
Just as the feelings came, it was gone. I felt air literally sucked out of me as my feet made contact with the ground, and unsteadily, my knees hit the hard wood floor. The cold marble on my face cracked and shattered without a sound and normal gravity settled again.
The creature just chuckled wildly, it's gleaming red eyes still glued onto me. In an effort to get up, fear crept into me as I realized that I couldn't move. Images of the girl flashed before my closed eyes and somewhere deep inside of me, hopelessness tugged at me to give up. As I struggled to do something, anything, I felt something brush on shoulders. I closed my eyes harder, hoping against hope that I wasn't going to disappear.
An ungodly scream made me my skin crawl and I looked up to see what made the creature scream in outrage. I couldn't turn my head to see who, or what, was there, but a sense that didn't leave me with the other sensitiveness, told me that a new presence, a strong one at that, was in the room with me.
A metal on metal scraping sound made me hope it was human. A sudden gust of wind blew from the intruder's direction caught me off guard and from the scream, I thought the same went for the creature. I didn't see clearly, but I thought I saw a somewhat humane form fly up to meet the creature and then slashing it and then jumping back down behind me again. The speed was too fast for my eyes but I was sure I saw some form or a shadow move in front of me.
I thought everything froze for a split second. Nothing was moving. Silence, and then the last scream of rage from the creature as its white mask cracked and shattered surged through the air. I watched I horror as a human face revealed itself behind the disappearing mask. His eyes were hollow, but the way it contorted in pain made it look like it was gleaming. Suddenly, his whole body, including its black fire disappeared. As his scream echoed around me, I felt relieved, despite the intruder whose presence I could still felt behind me.
Just as I opened my mouth to speak, I felt my muscles loosen and my body come back to life. I snapped my head back, just to see my peaceful kitchen. As I was about he snap back, a whisper said next to my ear, "too slow,"
I knew before I looked that I won't see who was there because I felt his presence slipping toward another direction. I was right. As I pretended to look at the opposite direction, at the last minuets, I snapped and started at where my senses told me to look. Bingo.
I stared at a girl about my age wearing black cloak like dress with wide sleeves. Around her middle was strapped a kilt and the hint of a sword poking out of her dress. Her raven hair wasn't short, but it didn't look long because it had spikes all around her head, and her huge dark eyes stared at me almost in surprise. Her body was still crouched low and looked about to move to my right. A smile played at her lips and she straightened up, looking at me up and down as she circled around me.
"What do we have here?" she asked, speaking to herself,
"When I got here, I was sure it was just two Hollows fighting over a meal. Then you turn into the prey again." She stopped moving.
"Why is your spirit particle so strange? I almost thought you were the late Captain of 3d squad. What are you?"
My mind didn't go blank. IT was filled with unanswered questions that threatened to make me loose my cool.
"You tell me." I said, sounding angrier than I meant to. "You come in MY house killing some creature and ten tell ME that I'm strange?"
She looked like she was taken back. "Wait, is this the first time you're….um…seeing things?" she sounded surprised.
"YES!!" I practically yelled.
"Oh," she nodded her head. "Well that changes things, good bye then!" she crouched down again and looked like she was going to leave.
"Oh no, you don't!" I jumped just in time to grab her leg as she prepared to run at that unbelievable speed of hers. "Ahhhh!! Get off of me!" I grabbed even harder. Just then, the lock on the front door turned and the girl stopped moving. I heard a sharp intake of breath and suddenly, I was whizzing past the front door, up the spiraling stairs and then the next thing I knew, my bedroom door closed with a slam as I heard the front door open.
"Allison, Amanda, I'm home." My dad called as the door slammed close again.
"Crips," the girl muttered as she paced my room soundlessly. "Go distract him." The girl ordered, "Then I'll try to explain everything." I must have looked doubtful because the girl rolled her eyes and said, "I won't leave, I promise." After I made her promise one more time, I crept down the stairs to meet my dad.
My father had his coat hanged and he was just sorting through the mail when I reached the bottom step. "Where's your mother?" he asked, not bothering to look up from the letter in his hands. I felt my throat choke up as memories flooded into me. "She uh," I hesitated, "she went to Grandma's to deliver something." He looked up now, "In this hour?" "Yeah, said it was something about her medications." He looked down again. Good one, Allison I congratulated myself. "I have some homework to do so." I had already turned around when Father said, "I'll order some pizza then. When you're done with homework, cone down and eat ok? I'll be in the lab." I nodded; he meant the office in the basement of course.
I crept up the stairs, unable to stop my adreline from pulsing through my veins. I hurried up to my room and closed the door firmly. The girl was sitting on the bed, looking at me expectantly. I sat down on my computer chair, facing her when I realized that on the mirror that hanged on my closet door, it was blank where her reflection ought to be.