Title: 20 Different Ways To Rise With The Music

Character(s): All

Rating: K+

Genre: Varied; All
Summary:
This is a series of oneshots concerning characters of the 39 Clues, written in stanza form, with 4 lines per stanza, as a way of telling each story. Characters will be randomly picked and are not in any specific order.

Multi-Chapter.

The previous character was Jonah. The line "His poor, poor child" means Jonah's own brand of music. It's wonderful how you can manipulate certain words to mean different things.

For the first one who reviewed with the correct answer (well, half of a correct answer, anyway), I'll be doing a review exchange.

Chapter: 2/20

~ The Second Movement: Waltz of the Rose ~

And so it begins,

The elegant dance

As ladies all sway

And gentlemen obey.

She sits alone,

Above them all,

With proud eyes

And timeless grace.

But years pass by

And she will soon fade:

Lights out, all dim

A silent requiem.

She hears a single,

Solitary voice

Threading through music,

And becomes one with dance.

They spin away,

A whirl of bright dress

Such vibrancy of life

That slips through her hands.

Time is not forgiving;

That much she knows.

It will take, without conscience,

All she holds dear.

She does not regret,

But she will wonder;

She does not hate

This accursed fate.

But it is done!

Oh, steal her now

From the clutches of this

Encroaching pain.

And so the rose grows,

Outshines them all

With shield of thorns

Blessed, unsurpassed.

Rose petals

Lose their life –

The dancers are gone

And the waltz ends.