Undead Forever
A slim teenage girl sat quietly in an old gnarled tree, one smooth, pale leg swinging down off the branch. She sang quietly, staring at the moon, to the bundle in her arms whose body rose and fell with its breath. Her hip length, long black hair shimmered silver-white streaks in the moonlight. There was a sharp snap and the girl seemingly broke from her trance. The thing in her arms jumped up, hissing and snarling. It was a huge rat with red, beady eyes.
"Who's there?" She called suspiciously. It was no one from her own camp, but there were no other gangs around there that she knew of. She searched the forest floor for the intruder before her hand was automatically drawn up to the ruby pendant around her neck which had begun to glow. She let out a startled gasp and her eyes searched the floor harder.
"Mystic?" The voice asked cautiously. The newcomer was dressed in a trench coat and jeans with black combat boots that matched the girl in the tree's. You couldn't see a coat under the jacket.
"Jin!" The girl was surprised as she jumped down to the ground and hugged her friend. "It's been an eternity."
"Only a few weeks right?" Jin frowned, blinking her blue eyes.
Mystic was startled.
"Jin, I haven't seen you in seven years." She said carefully, "It's 2010."
The other girl blinked again and her eyes changed to a startled chartreuse color.
"It can't have been." She whispered.
"It was 2003 when we thought we lost you."
"No…no…I can't…remember." Jin winced. "Has it been seven years?"
"Yes, it's been seven years since we were kicked out of the underworld." Mystic nodded, "And seven years since you last wore this." She held up a ruby, smaller that hers but still the same general shape. She had pulled it out of what had seemed to be, and was, thin air as her tight black, ripped dress had no pockets.
"Seven years…" Jin shook her head and her own black hair bounced. "My God it's been so long, Mystic."
"We looked for you but you had wandered off." Mystic told her. "Where were you?"
"I…I don't know." Jin frowned. "Mystic…I can't remember anything but finding myself here."