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Dreamworld style writing.
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As I lay trying to sleep and listening to the rain tapping on the window I wondered why I agreed to help the Davis family or why I took their help. Not that I had much choice in the matter or so I was told.
I lay clutching my pillow and staring at the wall until my eyes started slowly closing.
The world around me was dark, too dark to see anything. I glanced around myself nervously and jumped when I heard something move from behind me. I spun around quickly making my terrified wide eyes come in contact with two large menacing yellow eyes.
I gulped and willed myself not to let the terrified scream move any further then my throat. I shuddered fearfully and quietly lifted my right leg before moving it behind me. I took a few quiet steps back only to freeze when I heard a growl and felt a hot breath on my face.
Tears pricked at my eyes as my heart beat wildly, I heard more shuffling surrounding me and new that I was now surrounded. I couldn't see their bodies but I could see all of their terrifying eyes staring at me.
I shook where I stood and was sure I was about to pee myself in fear. A quiet sob escaped from my mouth before I could stop it.
I nearly screamed when the creature in front of me let out a throaty laugh. As I stared at the large yellow eyes in the darkness they seemed to shrink and change colour. They turned to a light blue that entranced me and kept me from looking away. From the corner of my eyes I noticed the other creature's eyes all changing sizes and colours and all I could do was stare in confusion.
"You're people" I mutter more to myself then to them but their laughs made a shiver of fear creep up my spine.
"You're too young to understand what we are but we are certainly not people . . . not human" I still felt the breath of the one in front of me and I took a step back when he seemed to get closer. I wasn't sure if I wanted to be able to see them fully or not. It might scare me too much but also it would help me to know if I could escape anyway.
"Not human" I repeated softly "werewolves?"
I could practically hear him smirk "no, although most humans think of us as like those creatures . . . where do you think the image for a werewolf came from" he sounded smug and I couldn't help but scrunch up my nose in disgust.
"Is this actually happening or is this a dream?"
"Oh, this is real. Happening as we speak, obviously".
"Then what is it you want?" I wrapped my arms around myself hoping for comfort. The thought of being hurt again whilst dreaming was terrifying to me. I glanced around me warily at all the eyes staring hungrily at me.
"That's quite simple really, you want to know what happened you your parents don't you?" I nodded and he carried on "then all you must do is find is, we'll be waiting".
My eyebrows furrowed as I glanced don't where I new my feet to be "it's that simple?"
"Of course".
"That doesn't answer what you want though?"
When he spoke he sounded amused and I knew he would be smirking like that Oliver Davis "you don't need to know what we want, you just need to know that after you find us, you will have your answers and don't worry you can bring along a few snacks for us".
I was positive that he was doing some kind of wolfish grin so I mumbled weakly "Okay".
"Excellent" I jumped and squeaked as I felt a hand stroke my cheek, to heighten my confusion more the hand was warm and smooth, it sent tingles down my body as he stroked from my cheek to my collar bone.
I backed away making the creature laugh "for now though I believe my brothers want a bit of fun and … well" his unexpected laugh made me jump "you're the only female around so I would advise you to run".
I gasped as I felt them all close in on me and without another thought I pushed past the one in front of me and ran. I ran into the darkness and didn't know whether to feel gratitude or annoyance when I started seeing things again. It was still dark so I presumed it was night time, the trees were barely see able. Everything just seemed to be made of shadows. I heard the pounding of feet, large feet, feet that were too large to belong to a human.
I ran and ran, dodging trees, tripping over rocks and twigs. My breathing was getting faster and faster and my chest was starting to burn. I tried to even out my breathing so I could keep running but I could feel my energy disappearing. I heard growls from behind me before something large came barrelling into my back.
I screamed as I fell to the floor but didn't stop to check if I was hurt, I pushed myself up and started running again. I heard another growl this time from beside me and stopped in time just as the creature flew in front of me. I watched as it stood back up on its hind legs and howled into the sky.
I bit back a scream and pushed myself of from the tree beside me so that I could move faster. I realised I was mumbling to myself over and over again begging for them to stop, to leave me alone but I knew that it would do no good. I was terrified of what they would do if they caught me. Would I be hurt again like last time or would this just be mental torture. Either way I knew the dream would go over and over in my head until I could finally figure everything out.
More howls joined the first one and this time I did scream.
Wake up Mai!
Wake up!
I kept willing myself to wake up but nothing would work all I could do was hope that I was making some noise in the waking world. I debated with myself whether or not I should actually make more noise in hopes that some one would help me.
I knew it was impossible in the dream because I had a feeling that if these creatures could make themselves look human then they could be anyone.
"Run little girl" the taunting words were spoken from right behind me and I had to gasp as the realisation hit me. I had stopped. Why had I stopped? I wasn't moving and without another thought or even looking back I was running again. I could see light appearing in the distance and urged myself to run faster. I could see a clearing through the light and nearly laughed with relief when I burst through the trees and came to a bright clearing.
"Gene" I whispered when my gaze came upon a lone figure in the middle of the clearing. I paused with my head to the side confused and slowly walked closer to it.
I stopped three feet behind it and asked a bit louder "Gene?"
The figure stiffened before spinning around and coming face to face with me.
"Mai?" he asked clearly confused.
I smiled nervously and rubbed the back of my neck "yeah, what are you doing here?"
He glanced around us confused "I'm not sure, I just went to sleep and appeared here".
I nodded slowly "okay" I froze when I heard growling from behind me and Gene opened his mouth to speak before pausing and staring with wide eyes behind me.
I turned around slowly and let out a scream, how could I have forgotten about the very things chasing me?
"Mai-" Gene started before the leader of the creatures decided to interrupt.
"Oh, Mai looks like you brought us an appetiser"
I gasped and backed away "no! leave him alone" the creatures started to separate and surround us as I grabbed Gene's arms behind me and made sure he stayed there. He tried to move me behind him but I wouldn't budge.
"Why should we? He's in our domain" the thing grinned at me and I shivered in fear, the large sharp teeth I could now see were more menacing then I last remembered.
"He . . . he's not supposed to be here, please leave him alone" I begged.
The thing stopped and paused "hmmm, for a price?"
I gulped nervously "a price?"
The thing nodded its large head as its eyes looked at my nervous state in amusement "everything comes with a price girly".
"Mai, don't do it! Don't listen to these" Gene faltered "erm, werewolves?"
I heard more growling from the other creature surrounding us and new that we wouldn't get out of this unscathed.
"We need to wake up Gene".
"Wha-"
I cut him off as I screamed "wake up!" I spun around quickly and shook him "you've got to wake up! Please! Wake up!" he stared down at me in shock and I could hear the creatures laughing behind us.
"play times over, get them boys" all of a sudden they were moving, all of them getting ready to jump at us.
Gene pulled me in to his arms as I screamed and squeezed my eyes shut waiting for them to bite.
I opened my eyes with a loud terrified scream.
I was sat shivering in the bed I had slept. I felt my bottom lip tremble as I tried to catch my breath. I could hear running footsteps coming to the room.
"Gene" I whispered in realisation making my eyes widen. Just as the door opened I jumped up out of bed and ran passed a wide eyed Ayako.
I ran until I came to a stop out side the twin's bedroom, the door opened just as I reached it. The twin who opened the door I could tell wasn't the one I was looking for.
Oliver looked at me with slight concern then with wide eyes as I ignored him and glanced behind him. I saw Gene sitting up in bed with wide terrified eyes and trying to catch his breath.
"Gene" I whispered before I pushed passed Oliver and ran to Gene "Gene" I practically screamed as I threw myself at him. His arms came to encircle around my body again as I started to cry with relief.
"I . . . I thought they would get us" I cried "I thought they had gotten you" he held me as we both calmed our breathing.
He pushed me lightly away from him as he looked me up and down "are you alright? Did they hurt you? What were those things? How was I there? What did they want? How long have you been dreaming about them? Was it real?" he blurted everything out in one breath.
I stared at him in shock as I sat at the end of his bed and looked at him before I glared and slapped him across the head.
I gaped at me "what was that for?"
"You could have gotten yourself killed you imbecile! I've just got you back and then you go and show up. You can't do that!"
I stood up and glared fiercely at him as new tears escaped my eyes before I sighed and felt my body sag "you would understand better if you could just remember, you were always the one to answer my questions on these things. You always had the answer".
"Mai!" u spun around and saw Ayako before she could open her mouth again to most probably shout at me I ran into her arms.
"Ayako" I breathed as more tears came.
"Mai?" this time it was Bou-san and he sounded really confused and unsure. Before he could speak again I was in his arms. He wrapped me in a hug and looked down at me with concern before exchanging a glanced with Martin who had just arrived.
"What's going on here?" Luella asked.
"Yeah, I heard a scream" Madoka asked whilst glaring at us with her half open eyes, clearly she was still half asleep.
"I'm sorry" I said weakly "it was just a dream" I said before glancing back at Gene who was still in his bed and still looking visibly shaken. Oliver was sitting beside him and was glancing from his twin to me with suspicion.
"Was it real?" Gene pressed.
I moved away from the people in the door so that they could enter the room and slowly made my way to the other bed in the room. I'm guessing it was Oliver's by how much his eye twitched when I sat on the end of it. I ignored him and looked at Gene instead, I stared at him through narrow eyes before sighing and glancing down at the dark blue sheets of the bed I was sat on.
I fiddled with the sheets as I spoke "I don't know".
"You don't know?" he asked in disbelief.
I glanced up sharply at him and glared "how am I supposed to know? Go on tell me Gene because I would so love to know how I'm just supposed to know. Okay? I do not know if it was real or not. It felt like the last dream did, it felt real and . . . when he touched me" my hand touched my cheek then moved down to my collar bone where the creature had stroked "it felt real, it felt disgusting and terrifying". I was now speaking in a far away voice as I remembered my dream.
"They want me to find them but they wouldn't say why and then they said they wanted to 'play'" I shivered and wrapped my arms around myself "because I was female . . . just like in the book" I finished in a whisper.
"Book?" I glanced up at Oliver who had curiously asked.
I nodded "I have it in my bag".
"Can I see this book?"
I stared at him for a moment in thought before nodding and getting the book. When I came back all the adults had gone "where is everyone?"
"Breakfast" Gene said as he came out of the bathroom. I blushed when I realised he didn't have a shirt on and quickly turned to hand the book to Oliver who was glaring at his brother.
He took the book and opened it up, I sighed and sat on his bed as I assumed he wouldn't be talking for a while. I sat on his bed until I got bored, standing up I made my way over to a wall that was full of photographs. I studied them all and smiled at all the family ones. I noticed one with both twins smiling and reached out to gently stroke the picture.
They both looked about seven in the picture, both happy and excited. Gene had his arm around his brother's shoulders and was grinning down at him as he scratched his knuckles into Oliver's hair. Oliver . . . the difference was shocking from the picture to now. In the picture he was laughing, his eyes scrunched up in happiness. I wondered what had gone so wrong to make him so serious and sad.
My finger lingered over his face on the picture before I quickly snapped my hand to my side as Gene popped up beside me … still shirtless.
I blushed and turned back to the pictures so I wasn't looking straight at his chest. "You could put a shirt on" I mumbled making him laugh.
"Why, it makes you blush so much and you're so cute when you blush" he teased making blush harder before I scowled to hide my embarrassment.
"Yeah well not-"
"Not every girl wants to see you shirtless Gene" Oliver's voice floated over towards us from the bed.
I turned to look at him but he was still looking at the book. I swapped an amused glance with Gene before looking scowling and blushing again.
"Gene" I whined "go put a shirt on now!"
He chuckled and pulled a blue shirt from a draw beside him. "Happy?" he asked as he pulled it on. I elbowed him and stalked towards the bed, sitting down beside Oliver who glanced up briefly at me in shock.
I ignored him and looked down at the page he was now reading. It was the same page I was reading on my way to Scotland. I gazed sadly down at the picture beside the horrible story. It was a picture of the once happy family.
"It's sad" I whispered making both twins look at me curiously as Gene sat on the end of the bed "how a family can just be torn apart". I couldn't help but picture that story as mine and the picture next to it being me, my mum and dad.
I shook my head "I just don't understand" I said as I looked up into Oliver's curious dark blue eyes "what do they want with me?"
I noticed his eyes soften slightly as he gazed at me "I don't know Mai but we'll find out".
I nodded and smiled slightly "I know you will, thank you" I said quietly.
"Noll! Gene! Mai-san!" we all glanced towards the door as Lin stepped inside "your breakfast is ready". We all nodded and stood up, Oliver of course taking the book with him.
We went to pass Lin but he stopped us "Miss Hara has juts arrived" he looked at us all but looked pointedly towards Oliver.
As we were all walking down to dinner I turned to Gene "who's Miss Hara?"
Oliver sighed on my left as Gene snickered on my right "she's a famous spirit medium and she has a huge crush on lickle Noll here" he reached over my head and pinched Oliver's cheek teasingly.
Noll glared at Gene until he stopped before saying to me "she's a nuisance, just wait until you see her reaction to you".
I looked up at him confused "me?"
Gene laughed again "yes, you're female, funny, pretty and most possibly an all around great person if I knew you better" I blushed and blinked in shock.
"erm thanks" I missed the glare Noll sent Gene and the smirk Gene sent back as I mulled over my thoughts "so have I made an enemy before I've even met her?"
Both twins nodded and I was surprised when Lin joined in "yes I'm afraid you have, she won't like that you seem so close to the twins" he said whilst eyeing us three curiously.
I blushed from in between Noll and Gene then frowned "so she won't like me because I talk to these two" I said whilst pointing at them.
"That is what we have said" Noll spoke in a bored voice.
I glared up at him and muttered "jerk".
I noticed Ayako, Madoka and Luella first as I entered the dining room. They all stopped talking excitedly to look up at us as we entered. I smiled lightly at them and they all grinned back before glancing at the twins and smirking.
I glanced at Noll then Gene "should we be worried?"
Gene shrugged as Noll spoke "not until they actually do something, for now though they are only planning". I nodded slowly and smiled at Monk who was listening at the three women looking highly amused, beside Monk was a blonde foreign looking man, he looked younger then twenty though.
I watched Lin make his way over to Martin and sit down discussing something to do with how to find the creatures from my dreams. I smiled at them gratefully even though they weren't looking my way before I flinched as a girl appeared in front of us.
"Oliver" her voice was quiet and she was wearing a kimono, she was using the sleeve to cover her mouth. Her short black hair made her eyes stand out more. The eyes that were kin fact glaring at me at this very moment, hence the reason I flinched.
I smiled slightly but it made her glare harden. Frowning I glanced at Gene who looked amused and Noll who looked anything but amused. "Miss Hara this is Mai, a dear friend of our family".
I could hear the smirk in Noll's voice an had to stamp on Gene's foot as he snorted with laughter. I stayed smiling and looking at the Kimono clad Miss Hara. "Pleasure" she said in English with a smirk.
I smirked back and responded in English "no the pleasure is all mine" I turned my head to the side "I'm sorry to be so rude but this is the first time I've heard about you and I must say no one has mentioned your first name".
I blinked innocently at her as she responded coldly "Masako".
I nodded and smile "well Masako I'm sure we'll be great friends" I grinned "Oh you must sit beside me, I insist". I dragged her over to the table and sat down, everyone watching in amusement. Gene sat on my other side as Oliver sat next to him.
My job done, Oliver didn't have to sit next to the poor girl who was crushing on him and I got to actually talk to a girl my own age. Once Masako actually got talking she wasn't so bad, we had a laugh. The boy with the blonde hair introduced himself as John Brown, he was an Australian priest who worked for Martin on his ghostly cases. Noll was reading my book again, Gene was snickering quietly with Monk and the three women were once again whispering.
The door to the dining room opened again and I heard a voice a never thought I would hear in England.
"Hello my loves I am finally here".
I stiffened and my eyes widened, I glanced towards Ayako and Bou-san who were staring with slightly widened eyes at the door before they both glanced quickly at me. I shook my head quickly and they both exchanged a look I couldn't interpret.
The person came closer to the table as everyone stopped talking and looked towards him. "Oh Monk! I have finally found you" the person said in a mock love voice "I thought you had left me forever my love".
I had to slap my hand over my mouth so I wouldn't laugh out loud at Bou-san's embarrassed and wary face.
"Oh and the lovely Ayako, what's this I hear about you both going out" the voice turned mock hurt "Monk are you cheating on me? Don't you love me anymore?"
Before either of the red faced people could respond he carried on "if you two are hear then where is my lovely Mai".
I flinched as everyone turned to look at me, my face turned red and I slowly turned around to face the person. Before I could even speak or get a good look at him he pulled me into a hug.
"Ca…can't…breath!"
"Oh, hehe sorry Mai-chan it's just been too long" he let me go and I was able to look up at him.
"Yes" I smiled slightly "is has Yasu".
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