Chapter 1 Valentina
Math, my worst subject and the first class of the day. I wasn't even bad for lack of trying. My teacher couldn't teach a tree how to grow. So the rest of my follow students and I listen to him rant and rave. We don't have a clue what he's trying to say but we listen anyway. The bell gives us the shrill cry we have all been waiting for telling us that we can leave this hell hole.
Walking to my next class was the same as always. That's all everything was now, boring. My teacher, my friends, my family, all of it was boring.
The only part of my life that hadn't been boring was when I was ten. It had started out as a normal summer day in Pennsylvania. My siblings and I had been playing a game in our huge side yard. When all of a sudden a blue box came out of the sky. It had windows, a door and it said police call box on the top. The doors open, a man and a woman walked out.
"Rose we are going into what is called the dream world. In the dream world Imagination is your greatest weapon." The man explained turning toward us. " And we need a particular kid to save this guy. Well, whats left of him that is." The man looked around for moment seeming to take in his surroundings. He was tall with a military buzz cut, wearing black jeans a t-shirt and leather jacket. The woman was pretty with short blonde hair. "Valentina" The man called out.
"Yes" I answered stepping forward.
"Listen, my name is the Doctor" he knelt down in front of me placing his hands on my shoulder. "There is something I need you to help me with. I need you to go into the dream world with Rose and I. Can you be brave and save the world?" He finish I look at the girl beside him was blonde with big brown eyes.
"This place your talking about like Kelly Creagh's book Nevermore?" I asked curiously his were a very light crystal blue.
"Yes it is just like Kelly's book with Lilith the nocs though, these nocs are a little different from the ones in the book." He taking in a breath he continued. "Do you remember the boy you met when you were three?" He asked.
"Tom"
"Yes Tom, Valentina Lilith has taken Tom -"
"What. Why. What did he ever do to her?" I interrupted.
"Valentina, she wants to turn him into an incubus. I need your help to prevent that from happening. Are you Willing to help us?" He asked pleading.
"My imagination is fully stocked and ready lets kick some demon butt. Oh, can my siblings come too. They would be very helpful?" I asked.
"As much as want to because I know they would be helpful I can't take them with us. To many people it would confuse Tom, understand." His voice was kind a caring.
I nodded looking behind the Doctor and his friend. "Is that what we'll be traveling in, its rather small."
The Doctor smiled. "Its much bigger on the inside, go head and look." He turned to Rose. "Go with her while I talk to her parents."
He was telling the truth it was bigger on the inside. I looked around there were these strange cords hanging for the ceiling. In the center was a cylinder with what looked like a control pannal around it. Then all of a sudden It Ends Tonight by The All-American Rejects stared to play.
"She's already got you all figured out. Must be easy to do that with kids." The song switched to another by the same artist. " oh that one of my favorites."
"I'll keep you my dirty little secret, don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret." We began to sing together. Another song stared to play this time by different artist. Just then the Doctor walked carrying my most priced positions. A green and silver teddy bear with the slythrin crest on one foot. Tom had transfigured it for me after a long night full of nightmares. A red rose wood wand with delicate vines carved into the wood. The core was a feather from Folx, Dumbledoors beloved phinex. No one had ever seen him more pleased with Tom Before or after. At the bud of the wand was a beautifully carved white crystal narcissus in full bloom. And last but not least Toms old school rob complete with the slythrin crest. He'd given it to me the night that I had to leave.
"Oh thank you, I'd forgotten all about them." I ran over to the doctor and took my things from him.
The bell for the next class rings. I get up and fall. Then everything goes black, pitch black.
Never will I forget that utter and complete blackness, as if I had fallen into the abyss. In front of my as a man, with grey skin. His jet black hair was slicked back and spiked.
"My name is Pitch. I wish to help you get rid of the white one." he stated his eye were that of fresh amber.
"Where am I?" I asked looking around "What do you know about Lilith?"
His eyes fluttered shut for a moment, then they open. He began to walk toward me, slowly, as if he didn't want to scare me. Something about him is familiar though I don't know what.
" You are here with me. I know many things about the white one. But can do nothing to get rid of her, at least not with out help." He pace in front of me his eyes almost never leaving mine.
"You know how to get rid of Lilith?" I asked interested. Pitch wore a robe like garment that was all black.
"Why do you insist on calling her by name?" He asked clearly spooked.
" Fear of a name , only provokes fear in the thing its self." I answered Mione would be so proud.
"You don't fear the white one." He muttered to himself. " You never feared the Dark Lord either." he stopped pacing and looked a me. "That's why."
"Why, what?"
"Why you unhinged her. The Dark Lord was her greatest accomplishment, fear by many. She almost turn one of his horcroxes into her own personal icubis. From what my fearlings have told me a little no older the ten, maybe eleven defeated her. Not for good of corse, though she was weakened greatly." He looked down at me, and didn't know that it had been me. I was the one who had weakened her, with the help of the Doctor and Rose of corse.
"OK, that was a nice trip down memory lane. Now, back to my question. Do you know how to get rid of Lilith?" I asked again.
"Yes, as a matter of fact I do, but I will need help."
"I'll see if I can get the gang back together."