Hey everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates! I'm trying to get a full time job, so my focus is on my resume and cover letter! Here is a little taste of what is going on with Shade and everyone. Its a bit shorter than the others, but I didn't want to keep you waiting too long ;) The next one will be the prob be just the Guardians! :) Once again I only own Shade, Spook, her sprites and those that come from the gate! If anything is wrong in this chapter, let me know!
6 months later...
Shade kneeled before the barrier, arms outstretched and glowing. Her golden eyes now a dull amber. Her pale skin, translucent. Ever since that fateful day, she had not left the Gate. It became a never-ending routine. Feed the Gate her power, sleep to gain more and then feed it again.
Slowly, she allowed the glow in her hands to fade and she glanced at the moon. Gazing at the glowing sphere that once filled her heart with peace and hope...
"How much longer must I go on?" She asked, her voice tired and weak, "Is this to be my fate? To fade into nothingness? I am not strong enough..." But as always, she received no answer.
Returning her gaze to the swirling gate, she could see the shadow that paced just beyond it. Her magic was weakening...and she knew that with it, so did the barrier. It had also been to long since she had checked up on her sprites and the people of the world...What was happening to them? Shaking her head, she ceased her worry...no if she allowed her mind to wander...this..this THING would take it as a moment of weakness. She would not allow it. She would stay strong. For that was her only choice...
Suddenly, she fell to the ground clutching her chest in pain. Visions swirling in her mind. Screams of pain and fear. Tears and blood. Curling up among the fallen leaves, she waited for it to pass. Finally, after what seemed like hours, the pain subsided and she sat up. Spook was by her side in an instance, looking up in concern.
"I'm fine...It wasn't as bad as some of the others...But I'm worried. What does this pain mean?...Its happening more often as time passes..." she stated, quickly wiping the tears from her eyes in an attempt to ease her friend's distress.
Never before had she truly felt agony during her time as a spirit and she was honestly terrified...sometimes they were familiar screams, like the children she had helped before...others were completely new. What was happening to those under her protection?
In another area of the world...
Pitch stood in a tree laughing as he watched Hallow's sprites. It happened only a few week ago, but they had changed. No longer did they scare children from danger...Now they scared them TOWARDS it! This being said, he turned to watch a sprite as it changed into a feral dog and chase a child deeper into the forest...further from her safe little home and loving mother.
Oh life is getting so interesting...what would happen now? Those poor, poor children...so filled with delicious fear. And to think that this could have all been avoided if the world's precious Guardians had listened the warnings...But no, after all...Shade Hallow was simply to dark for those disgusting do-gooders.
Returning his attention to the scene, he took note of another sprite coming to do its job properly and chased the child back the way it came...yes...Shade still had some power left it seemed...but for how long?...When will this little sprite become like the others? When will it give itself to the delicious taste of fear?