MMMmmmm this scene makes me want to draw up this stained glass... maybe I will tomorrow. Okay Yeah. I'll post pictures to go with it later :0 ANYWAY here's this part. I'm pretty proud of how this is turning out. Yas.
AWAKENING
It was dark except for the glowing circle of stained glass underneath her feet. The stained glass encompassed all the colors of the rainbow and depicted many different things. In the center was a girl in a rich gown and a simple diadem on the crown of her head. She had her face down and her hands clutching her chest but it was obvious that she was beautiful and young. Still she was older than Soku- maybe even an adult. Around her lay a bed of roses in white and red and thorns that dripped over the flowers like fresh paint or even blood. around the outside of the circle was a pattern of smaller circles. In the circles were interchanging symbols; a heart, and diamond, a club, a spade.
As Soku stood admiring the colorful glass her eyes caught on the different spades throughout the floor and she wondered why the image seemed so familiar. Her own personal spade on her arm did not twitch as she would have assumed but instead she felt a terrible scratching against the back of her mind. It was like a voice that grated on your nerves or the sound of nails on a chalkboard. It started as a low grumble and she heard it as if it wasn't just in her head, but as it slowly became louder and more audible she couldn't tell where it was coming from anymore. around her everywhere it rumbled when suddenly a flash of cold white against the nothingness of the area. off in the distance it broke through the black. A loud crack hit her all over and the rumbling returned.
But suddenly the dark was a different kind of dark- a more unsettling dark that only belonged to the night. A dream had come and gone and left Soku staring at the ceiling wondering what she was just thinking about. The feeling didn't last long before out of the corner of her eye and through the open window she saw a terrible shaft of lightning hit the ground hard. The secondary island had the largest darkest storm raging over it and Soku had half a mind to stay up and watch it. The other half of her brain was getting ready to make a realization. She bolted up straight- her eyes wide.
"The Raft-" She blurted out throwing the sheets off her bare legs. No wonder the air was so sticky earlier and that dream! Yes. There was something about that dream. "Rio! the raft-" she started, turning towards Rio while she fumbled around for clothes, but when her eyes settled on the other bed in the room it was empty. Rio was gone. Her pajamas were strewn over the bed messily and the window to their first floor room was wide open.
She wouldn't... would she? Soku found herself asking in her head. At least not alone? She tightened her jaw, pulled her shorts over her tights, and zipped the front of her shirt up.
"You stupid- ughh-" She Grabbed her wallet before jumping out the window and hitting the ground running.
SECONDARY ISLAND
"One, two, three-" Soku counted the number of boats tied up while running down the dock. "... and four." She sighed a dreadful mixture of relief, frustration, and fear. "That at least means she's on the island." For a moment she thought that all she would have to do is find Rio and get the raft to safety if it hadn't already been blown to bits by that monstrous lightning. Unfortunately she was wrong.
"What the hell?" Soku yelled as the shadows that covered the whole dock started to dance in front of her eyes. Millions of pairs of bright yellow eyes twitched up at her. "Oh, God-"
She yanked her wooden sword from her belt loop and was suddenly so grateful for so many things. One was that she was glad that she had put on her shorts that had her shorts run through them. The second being that the handle no longer splintered and hurt her hand, because Riku had lent her some medical tape to wrap it with. She breathed deeply as the shadows swayed in front of her, hunching down like a cat that was ready to pounce. She straightened her poster and held out her sword. Almost on cue first three shadows jumped. One at her head and the rest at her legs. She slashed all three and was surprised at how easily they were cut.
"Shadows right..." She ducked back and watched as the three shadows that she had attacked stood back up and commenced wobbling like they had before. "How am I supposed to fight shadows?" Another shadow darted towards her and she found herself on her back end surrounded by shadows.
"Please..." Soku found herself whimper. The voice was weak and painful for her to hear. "Please God..." The shadows swamped her, surrounding her legs and then her torso no matter how much she struggled. These shadows where not weightless; heavy, in fact and left her arms tired from waving them around under them. "Please..." I whispered again, throwing my sword over my face. "I want to live!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, squeezing tight on the splintered wood.
The shadows where gone, she felt no weight on her shoulders or legs. Though she knew this, she dared not open her eyes. Like earlier in the day, she was scared but found her heart beating just as fast as it usually did. Darkness was something that she found that she hated and she was now scared not of the monsters that haunted her but that the darkness would completely overtake her. The world is full of darkness, she just refused to realize that.
Slowly, one by one, Soku opened her eyes to the storm. the greys and blacks of the clouds tried their best to block out the moon. The shadows twitched beside me, not quite ready to attack, more waiting for something.
"Son of a-" She started, standing up. The shadows formed an orderly circle around her, no bigger than 3 feet away on all sides. She swung her sword at them and they jumped back, like the wooden thing could hurt the- hurt the- Wooden thing?
Soku stared down at the thing in her hands. She was not holding a wooden sword; she was griping a hammer. It was gigantic and the handle was black with silver metal stripes- about four. The end was pointed at an angle with a key-chain that matched the zipper of her shirt; a black star hung from the thick chain. The head of the hammer was what held her attention the longest. On the side was a black shape, engraved in the metal. A key hole. The weirdest part of all would have been what looked like a handle at the top. It looked like a padlock, she found herself thinking, and it was unlocked, because the handle looking piece of metal was not fully attached on one side.
Soku didn't have much time to observe her new weapon of the strange situation she was in. Someone screamed from the bottom of their lungs. It was a girl and judging from the bright red light that shot into the air, the scream had come from the tree house almost dead-set in front of her. It was silent now other than the swishing sounds around her coming from the shadows but was suddenly replaced by loud rumbling and the breaking of earth. The new addition of wood to the island cracked loudly and fell into nothing. the tree house followed suit.
"What the hell?" Soku yelled, taking out the two closest shadows at once. this hammer actually did damage; the shadows where gone in one hit. Had that scream come from Rio? And now she was gone with the tree house. "Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!" She yelled taking out a whole row of shadows. "Now I'll never-" She stopped short and let out a loud screamed again, running off the dock and across the beach. the whole island rumbled this time and I fell to my knees. No more surprised when the shadows sunk underneath me. the world cracked again. "Rio..." I breathed choppily. "Please..."
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